“I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I could tell from the reflection in the window that it was… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that. — Will Sasso Copy Share Image
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost. — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with. — The Undertaker 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
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
I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this… — 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
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
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd… — Margaret Atwood 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
“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
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
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
“His words thrummed in, deep, imprinting themselves on her very deepest, deepest, deep bits. “I believe I am your destiny. You are… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Penelope had read several novels about such governesses in preparation for her interview and found them chock-full of useful information, although she… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot… — David Bowie 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
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd 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
I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain… — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever… — Al Yankovic 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
People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing… — Margaret Cho 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
I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just… — Jim Norton 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
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a… — Drake Copy Share Image
![“I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.” quote by Al Yankovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9c/al-yankovic-3837_antenna_i-m-a-music-fan-and-i-can-listen-to-the_1541988.png)
