Satirizing Quotes & Sayings

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. — Albert Camus

Beauty could not love you back. People were not what they seemed and certainly not what they said. Madness was contagious. Memory served melancholy. The medieval was not so bad. Gravity was a form of nostalgia. There could be virtue in satirizing virtue. Dwight Eisenhower and Werner von Braun had the exact same mouths. No one loved a loser until he completely lost. The capital of Burma was Rangoon. — Lorrie Moore

Big fishy!" said Wentworth again.
"That's right!" Tiffany said, delighted. "Big fishy! And what makes it particularly interesting is that a whale isn't a fish! It is in fact a mammal, just like a cow!"
Did you just say that? said her Second Thoughts, as all the pictsies stared at her an the boat spun in the surf. The first time he's ever said anything that wasn't about sweeties or weewee and you just corrected him? — Terry Pratchett

I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back to religion. All his troubles come down just to that. — Carson McCullers

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. — Bil Keane

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees. — James Berardinelli

I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy. — Jon Bon Jovi

I only miss you when I'm breathing — Jason Derulo

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people. — Kevin Kwan

We need a great president. — Donald Trump

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble. — D.H. Lawrence

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something. — Joy Bryant

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood. — Tim Heidecker

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate. — Seth Godin

Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks. — Bas Rutten

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV. — Mike Judge

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence. — Marianne Williamson

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible. — Amber Valletta