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It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd lost. (Though perhaps that's not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest in their own scars.) He's shown astride his horse, waving a sword and about to gallop into the nearby petunia bed: a craggy man with seasoned eyes and pointed beard, every sculptor's idea of every cavalry leader. No one knows what Colonel Parkman really looked like, since he left no pictorial evidence of himself and the statue wasn't erected until 1885, but he looks like this now. Such is the tyranny of Art. On the left-hand side of the lawn, also with a petunia bed, is an equally mythic figure: the Weary Soldier, his three top shirt buttons undone, his neck bowed as if for the headman's axe, his uniform rumpled, his helmet askew, leaning on his malfunctioning Ross rifle. Forever young, forever exhausted, he tops the War Memorial, his skin burning green in the sun, pigeon droppings running down his face like tears.


Margaret Atwood


#reality-check #truth #war #wit #art

Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid. 'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.' [...] So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.


Adam Rex


#humor #invasion #irony #native-americans #parody

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


Daniel Libeskind


#articulate #history #meaningful #parody #provide

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


Dylan Moran


#i think #just #lot #parody #think

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


Larry Hagman


#long #only #parody #play #something

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


Jess C. Scott


#drama #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey #inner-goddess #love

All families are silly in their own way.


Alan Hollinghurst


#beauty

The truck is beautiful.” I breathed. I exhaled. Then I breathed again. “Beautiful.


Harvard Lampoon


#nightlight #parody #twilight #beauty

No one else could know we were going on a date, though. I needed to protect Edwart in case anything happened. Still, I had never gone out with such a hot guy before, so I sent a vague e-mail to the whole grade saying, “Edwart Mullen and Belle Goose Are Totally Together.


Harvard Lampoon


#nightlight #parody #twilight #dating

Greta is great, but he's a little...extremely...moody. Take my birthday last year. At the stroke of midnight, he appeared at my door. "I wrote this poem for you," he said, shoving a piece of crumpled paper into my hands. 'The world must burn. Lava exploding into faces. Their skeletons are screaming now. No survivors. - From Greta' "Oh...uh...wow..." I began. "Don't bother thanking me," he said. "I just wanted to comfort you for being one year closer to the grave. Of course, I failed miserably, because comfort doesn't exist in this universe.


Bratniss Everclean


#gale #greta #hunger-games #parody #death






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