Satirize Quotes

#1. In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Anna Chlumsky

#2. Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

John Waters

#3. It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike.

Robert Mankoff

#4. Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Hedda Hopper

#5. At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.

Jon Stewart

#6. American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

F. Sionil Jose

#9. Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

Joseph Addison

#10. Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Lenny Bruce

#11. No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

Maajid Nawaz

#12. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift

#13. Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.

Tom Paxton

#14. Satirize wickedness if you must
but pity weakness.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

Fernando Perez

#16. I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

DJ Shadow

#17. If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Berkeley Breathed

#18. Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue; they that wish to walk in front of it must be mindful this!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. No matter how attached I became to a 'cunt', I was always more interested in the person who owned it. A cunt doesn't live a separate, independent existence. Nothing does. Everything is interrelated.

Henry Miller

#20. I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#21. We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

Brene Brown

#22. Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

Rajneesh

#23. I'm confiscating your hair dryer - you've fried your brain.

Rachel Vincent

#24. You raze the old to raise the new.

Justina Chen