Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Carlisle says Siobhan's super power was the ability to do whatever the hell she wanted. I swear, that's what Carlisle says. Her… — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.” — M.J. McGuire Copy Share Image
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing. — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
“History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
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