Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Vince Carter

This game, from the start, seemed like it meant more for them than it did for us.

Gideon Gono

This is a modest payment meant to demonstrate our sincerity with respect to our international obligations,

Jeremy P. Johnson

It's one of the most wonderful places to run, and everyone is so supportive of you. It's where I'm meant to be.

Kathleen Hohl

It's a dispensation. It's meant to be observed in an appropriate way.

Lance Armstrong

It really meant a lot, and for a number of different reasons,

George Williams

It probably wasn't real official, but boy, it meant everything to me.

Katherine Hough

This has a lot of satire in it.

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.

Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Chris Rock

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

Gore Vidal

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Mark Lisanti

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

Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Denny Green

The Secret of success is to start from scratch & keep scratching

American Proverb

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

Carson Kressley

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Luke Bodensteiner

We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.

Christopher Meloni

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

Tom Waits

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

Usain Bolt

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.