Gone Quote by Brendan Gill Download Open image “Parody is homage gone sour.” — Brendan Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gone Homage Parody Sour
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
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly… — Judith Butler 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 Harvard Lampoon.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material.… — Al Yankovic 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 Harvard Lampoon.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
