Quotes About Satirists

#1. There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Trey Parker

#2. Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

William Cowper

#3. Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Umberto Eco

#4. American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?

Christopher Buckley

#5. The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

Marietta Rodgers

#6. I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply ... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Trey Parker

#8. Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

Jack Herer

#9. The public is gullible ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Bill Maher

#10. Satirists [10w]
I do best what satirists have always done ~
make enemies.

Beryl Dov

#11. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#12. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

#13. Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Isaac Watts

#14. The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

Anuj

#15. Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

Dalai Lama

#16. Helena was not one of life's shoppers. To her it was not a pleasure but a distressing need, like having one's hair cut, or urinating. It

Keith McCarthy

#17. He steered their worried thoughts away from what they couldn't do or hadn't done and toward Himself, offering peace in exchange for their anxiety. I got you, buddy. I got you.

Suzanne Eller

#18. common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As

Praying Medic

#19. Come on," Falco said. "I'll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I'd say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you've been getting plenty.

Fiona Paul

#20. Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

#21. Unfortunately, money make us happy - look around then say your opinion!

Deyth Banger

#22. A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

Sharon M. Draper

#23. Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#24. The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

David Cameron

#25. A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#26. The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

Gary Gulman