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
Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. — Stan Getz 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
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
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“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
“Patriotism is a virtue of the wicked. Irreverence is the champion of liberty, it's only sure defence. The Golden eye of justice… — John Braun Copy Share Image
A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies… — Nomi Prins 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
With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing… — Johnny Depp 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
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
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.” — Hilary Thayer Hamann 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
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
