Parody Vs Satire Quotes & Sayings

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

I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one. — Lindsay Fox

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship. — Parker J. Palmer

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. — T. J. Miller

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article. — Nathan Poe

A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food? — David Foster Wallace

When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire. — Mark Zuckerberg

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off. — P. J. O'Rourke

Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito

at last is r bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was s taken out of Man." [9] — Anonymous

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over. — P.G. Wodehouse

was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, — Oscar Wilde

The first casualty of war is casual wear. — Brian Spellman

I don't bring yesterday's poses to today's practice. I know yesterday's poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don't want yesterday's experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now. — B.K.S. Iyengar

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. — James Elroy Flecker

I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S. — Michael Klare

I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me. — Michael Fassbender

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you. — Morgan Brittany

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false. — Peter Sloterdijk

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object. — Henry Selick

Napoleon was criticized for giving "toys" to war-hardened veterans, and Napoleon replied, "Men are ruled by toys. — Dale Carnegie

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love. — Jess C. Scott

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. — Joe LaFlam

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody. — Margaret Cho

It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee. — Mark Morford

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov