Val McDermid Quotes

I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.

Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.