Quotes About Irreverence

Cry havoc, and let slip the trousers of most outrageous bonkilation!

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

He was a terrible blasphemer of God and the saints, and that for every trifle, being the most choleric man alive.

When nothing is revered, irreverence ceases to indicate critical thought.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

How is freedom exercised?" ... "Willfully, Irregularly. Through refutation of the custom. The breaking of patterns. Being unseen. Solitude. Social indifference. Fighting ill-wrought power. Irreverence for authority. Moving without limit or schedule through the day and the world. Choosing when to participate and when to withdraw.

Why do I want to annoy people? Because annoying people is funny.

Getting fully into the spirit of the thing, I finished off my masterpiece with a rude word

The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goosegirl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

Le sacrilège, la seule manière que les impies ont encore d'être dévots.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life's work.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.