Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Ann Voskamp

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ambrose Bierce

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

Angela Carter

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

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.

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

There's a phrase: to strike while the iron is hot. The iron is hot.

It's like a shirt when it's all wrinkled up. You press it with an iron and it comes out looking better.

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

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

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

P. J. O'Rourke

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

Cassandra Clare

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Natan Sharansky

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Janet Fitch

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Joseph Stalin

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

P. G. Wodehouse

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Ovid

The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Joey Fatone

I have kind of an iron stomach.

Howard Schultz

It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

Howard Dean

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

Oliver Herford

My wife has a whim of iron

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

Jeanne Calment

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jesse Eisenberg

[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.