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Warthogpox High School was the worst school in the city of Wyvernwing, and Harry Hames Moffer was its most infamous student. — Jacquel Chrissy May

Parody is homage gone sour. — Brendan Gill

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of? — Shannon L. Alder

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies. — Jamie Lee Curtis

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. — David Levithan

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys? — Jim Norton

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace

All families are silly in their own way. — Alan Hollinghurst

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare! — Hillary DePiano

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. — Timothy Simons

Self-parody is the first portent of age. — Larry McMurtry

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. — Jorge Luis Borges

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction." — Frederick Lenz

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age — Adrianne Ambrose

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre. — Marlon Wayans

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. — Georges Bataille

Do Androids Dream Of Emma Peel? — Kirkland Ciccone

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. — Truman Capote

One parody is worth a thousand polemics ... — Jennifer Stone

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be. — Adam McKay

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere. — Lynn Austin

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. — Ted Rall

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do. — Marilyn Manson

Is not parody the eternal lot of man? — Milan Kundera

was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, — Oscar Wilde

No one should ever take them self or others too seriously."

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. — Abigail McCarthy

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies. — Mason Cooley

You are fifty different kinds of twisted."
"Only fifty? Val, you wound me. — Nenia Campbell

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating. — Keith Olbermann

The people are so small, they look like ants (although they're Walmart customers, so they look like obese ants). — Andrew Shaffer

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple. — Nate Mendel

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. — Al Yankovic

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. — Bernard Berenson

Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don't believe me? Get with the program, crackpot! — Barry Webster

In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule. — Jaye Frances

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least. — Mort Crim

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer

There are parodies of non-existent things. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. — Pat Robertson

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying. — Craig Ferguson

We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. — Terry Pratchett

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself. — Leonard Cohen

Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise
Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH! — Dan Bergstein

I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing. It's hard when someone is just exactly like a parody. — Jo Walton

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. — Al Yankovic

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked. — Greg Nagan

Old age is life's parody. — Simone De Beauvoir

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing. — Max Tundra

Hey. Everyone's different," says Derek.
"But some are more different than others," says Budge, and they all laugh. — Margaret Atwood

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody. — Cat Deeley

The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir. — Christopher Buckley

I shake his hand, and feel the jolt of electricity again from him. He laughs and raises his hand to show me the joy-buzzer in his palm. — Andrew Shaffer

I have hobbies," he says, smirking. "Physical pursuits: Base-jumping, hang-gliding, underwater basket-weaving. — Andrew Shaffer

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love. — Jess C. Scott

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I
could tell from the reflection in the window that it was also
an intriguing expression. — The Harvard Lampoon

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — Al Yankovic

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. — Andrew Shaffer

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself. — John Updike

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. — James Russell Lowell

I see parody as another form of comedy. — Bruce Campbell

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.' — Eric Topol

Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody. — Margaret Cho

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective. — Adrianne Ambrose

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. — N. T. Wright

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. — David Bowie

She hands me a security badge that says VIRGIN. — Andrew Shaffer

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself. — Dylan Moran

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. — Joe LaFlam

The neuroses parody the virtues. — Mason Cooley

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. — The Harvard Lampoon

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you. — L.V. Lewis

The first casualty of war is casual wear. — Brian Spellman

Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world. — M.J. McGuire

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home. — Vladimir Nabokov

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody. — Ben Stiller

Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me. — Drake

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. — Larry Hagman

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. — C.S. Lewis

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. — Al Yankovic

You can parody almost anything. — Bruce McCall

In education, parody is obsolete. — Alfie Kohn

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. — Aldous Huxley

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. — Busy Philipps

Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody. — Andrew Smith

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. — Adam McKay

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. — Michael Haneke