Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Megan Ronhovde

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Tom Swan

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

Wole Soyinka

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Fred Moore

Long-term archival storage remains the realm of magnetic tape libraries. Today there is no truly cost-effective ILM strategy without a tape component.

Janet Evanovich

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Rick DiPietro

Like slow-motion, off the shin pads, ... Another weird bounce.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.

A.J. Pierzynski

It was weird for me because I don't want to show up the other team.

Liev Schreiber

When I read Jonathan's story, I said, 'This is just too weird and too serendipitous,'

Jim Butcher

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

Niall Horan

Changing is for weirdos.