Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Young

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

C. S. Lewis

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Augusten Burroughs

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Peter De Vries

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Edgar Degas

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Elizabeth Kostova

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Ben Affleck

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Barbra Streisand

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

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.

Dario Fo

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Mark Lisanti

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

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.

Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Gore Vidal

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