“English and Gym. That's it. Look, do you know how difficult it is to write about being at school convincingly? It's been… — Stephfordy Mayo Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise… — Merlin Franco 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
“She wondered, ever so hopefully, if among these men she would find her holy grail – what she'd been saving herself for… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is… — Peter Funt Copy Share Image
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Hey. Everyone's different," says Derek. "But some are more different than others," says Budge, and they all laugh.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.” — Greg Nagan Copy Share Image
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I took the one letter he had for us. It was from the Switchblade Gas & Electric Company. I didn't know I… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“And fair warning, as part of my tortured-soul thing I have to start being mean to you. Apparently that will make me… — Cale Dietrich Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
