Browsing Topic Best Tongue In Cheek Quotes

‘Now I’ve tasted chocolate I’m not going back’. That’s a great line. That’s not me, that’s all the writing. I mean it’s like it doesn’t matter who plays it, it’s a great role. It’s such a funny, tongue in cheek kind of great role.

Even on the most serious ballads, I’ll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I’m saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I’m also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this – there’s a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story – because there’s an inherent voice you’re trying to copy (and often to satirize).

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, ‘Don’t worry about winning’: If you win I’ll get you ice cream, but if you lose I’m going to pout in the car.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I’d overheard…Used to be people couldn’t draw very well, then they could, and now they can’t again.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I’ve done. It’s always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it’s a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren’t any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There’s a definite presence there.’ That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk’. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it’s quite amusing.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

I’ve never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year’s most politically correct words and phrases. Top

There’s actually an article in the Washington Post, I don’t know whether it’s tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn’t have business interests there.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

People are complex, and I think it’s a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That’s my personality as well.

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on ‘Xena’. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.