“We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation. — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Fighting is healthy. If everyone has too much reverence for each other, or for the material, results are invariably underwhelming. It’s irreverence… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
