Quotes About Irreverence

Irreverence, independent-mindedness and a hunger for far-off cultures have defined it {San Francisco} ever since people began streaming into the area in 1849 in search of new fortunes from gold, and a settlement of 812 souls became within two years a city of almost 25,000, many from China, Korea and Australia, clustered around more than 1,000 gambling houses.

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.

Mientras la mente rígida está petrificada y cerrada al cambio y la mente líquida es gaseosa, la mente flexible posee un cuerpo modificable. No está fija en un punto ni se desliza por cualquier parte sin rumbo, sino que posee una dirección renovable. A la mente flexible le gusta el movimiento, la curiosidad, la exploración, el humor, la creatividad, la irreverencia y, por sobre todo, ponerse a prueba.

I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.

In Miami the obsession with making things work and being practical, with making lots of money, sometimes out of the fear of starving, has replaced a sense of life and, above all, of pleasure, adventure, and irreverence.

I could imagine his eulogy: "Fucker's dead. Throw some dirt on him. Let's go play some poker.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God's gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?

I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh.

Some though Dad was irreverent--that he was not respectful enough. Once, a visiting preacher concluded his sermon by yelling to everyone that all the televisions should be thrown into the river, all the stereos and radios should be thrown into the river, and all the miniskirts and bikinis should be thrown into the river. When he finally sat down, Dad approached the pulpit and said, "Please rise and join me now in singing hymn number 481, 'Shall We Gather at the River.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

Suddenly, the gods have stopped saying yes and have started making really obnoxious farting noises. In my face. With their armpits.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.