Words matter. These are the best Irreverent Quotes from famous people such as Maajid Nawaz, Jack Herer, Horace, Jim Gaffigan, Ransom Riggs, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation – from the writers of the world’s religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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.
I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite – her name was Linda Janoff – was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.
Chris Gayle has always been known to be a rather irreverent person.
The reason I call my book ‘Irreverent’ is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book ‘Forgiving’ because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first ‘Deadpool’ movie.
All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human – honest in some way.
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
On the surface, ‘Book of Mormon’ is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there’s a great sweetness and a very positive message.
John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.
People think because ‘Vice’ is irreverent and because we’re crazy, we’re stunt journalists. You know what? I don’t actually care.
I’m kind of desperately looking for those things that will… you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.
It doesn’t seem that long ago to me that the word ‘irreverent’ seemed affixed to my name. ‘Irreverent newcomer.’ I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
It was a long time ago: ‘Angela’s Ashes’ by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.
The attributes we’re focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.
As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that’s the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything – the irreverent, the scary.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is ‘Help’, the Beatles movie. It’s so funny and irreverent and great.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.
The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That’s all it’s about.
I’m a happy guy. I like to joke around. I’m irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I’m just an easy and happy guy.
Our conversations on ‘The Herd’ are irreverent, insightful and original. That’s a great combination.
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It’s noisy; it’s a trickster… you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it’s a good teacher.
I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme’s ‘More Than Words’ at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
There’s a certain irreverent, populist ‘realness’ to Donald Trump’s much-maligned Twitter account and off-the-cuff remarks to the press. His down-to-earth style is out of place in the Washington, D.C. swamp-world of uptight professional politicians, but that’s exactly what makes him so appealing to regular people.
I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats’s world by Andrew Motion’s biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats’s letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
