Topical Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
— Joey Skaggs
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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in…
— Gordon Getty
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The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the…
— Eric Voegelin
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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political…
— Ray Romano
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What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and…
— Brendan Gill
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them…
— Tamora Pierce
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People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every…
— Al Yankovic
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Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would…
— Suzanne Vega
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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
— Rory Bremner
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I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have…
— Tommy Davidson
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Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so…
— George Clooney
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[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years…
— John Dos Passos
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
— Ray LaMontagne
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I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows,…
— Holly Madison
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
— Joan Baez
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I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical…
— Diana Quick
Who Wrote These Topical Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Topical Quotes as follows: