Mock Quotes

(on the responses to his being vegan) My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don`t put me in danger. For a while, every meal was the third degree, but when she couldn`t refute any of the thousands of good reasons--my health, simple compassion, the health of the planet, etc., etc.--for being a vegan, she conceded and now is very conscious of what food she makes when I am around--and, I believe, when I am not around. She is lovely. My father never blinked. He is for the most part unflappable. In a good way. Live and let live--unless you are being an asshole. He will privately mock, ridicule, judge, etc. But, hey, who`s gonna cast the first stone? For people who have been through it, made changes, had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. No, I`m only kidding. It only scares me--I mean, the small-minded. I think if I gave my dad a five-minute rundown on the advantages of veganism, I could convert him without too much trouble. I`ll do it next time I see him. Maybe. I`m not much into the converting business, though.

(on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness") It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what "Hamlet" is about.

(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

I know people mock us, but we do what we do. It is all about pop music and entertaining our fans. We don`t pretend to be anything we are not, and while some may not like our music, there are plenty out there who do.

The fact that the vice president shot someone at close range is very interesting. It is easy to mock, and jokes continue. But it should not be the role of the press to make jokes. That is bad judgment.

I mean it`s traditional, ... In English public schools boys are punished to keep them under control. It`s only mock here. It`s not real, but it looks real.

We tied it early in the third, then they hit two 3-pointers in a row. Mock was just unconscious tonight. He`s a great shooter.

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

I`m pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I wrote a column once where I went to Bryant`s grave and had this mock conversation with the Bear,