Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Styron

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Jonathan Swift

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Mark Lisanti

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Karl Kraus

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

G. H. Hardy

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

Carroll O'Connor

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Angela Carter

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Gore Vidal

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Lupe Fiasco

I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.

Seth Lloyd

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

Jack McDevitt

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.