Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to… — Rosario Marin Copy Share Image
I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them… — Sterling Gates Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to… — Jay Cassidy Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband,… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
The Democrats pulled out one of their most powerful surrogates - and no, it wasn't President [Barack] Obama. Beyoncé showed up at… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
I think Rahm Emanuel is now defunct as any sort of a surrogate for Hillary Clinton. — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew,… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter. — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image