“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos. — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“After riding like a moron all over the place, observes the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.” — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“The path of least resistance is paved with high-fructose corn syrup and palm oil.” — Hosam Zidan Copy Share Image
“Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.” — Jaye Frances Copy Share Image
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal… — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that talented writers and everybody who produces shows are being meeting with such success - it gives me more… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow… — Joe LaFlam Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Boy will not be a failure. Mythili knows.She has seen the generations before.The boy will make it.As his father has said,he… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.” — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
![“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/ang-lee-2496_core_making-this-movie-as-a-period-piece-abou_796900.jpg)
