Parody Examples Quotes & Sayings

When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds. — Jen Lancaster

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation. — Samuel Johnson

Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life. — Debasish Mridha

The race may or may not be to the swift,
but tell me, is it likely
that the fight will be entrusted to the dead? — Hilda Doolittle

Virtues, of ...
Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself — Sadhu Sundar Singh

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives. — Catherine Hardwicke

You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad. — Mara Liasson

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping. — Bill Rancic

Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One. — Charles Spurgeon

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...
It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon... — Virginia Alison

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background. — John Steinbeck

Do you always get so hungry when you make love?"
"When you love somebody. — Ernest Hemingway,