Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Demetri Martin

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Douglas Coupland

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

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Orson Scott Card

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,

Jonathan Turley

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

Henry James

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Joe Wright

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

John Gunther

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Georgette Heyer

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Jacques Derrida

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jeaniene Frost

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

George Carlin

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Joe Moore

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success.

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.

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.

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.

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

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

Philip Levine

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Jimmy Fallon

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Gore Verbinski

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Margaret Thatcher

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

Margaret Thatcher

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

Oscar Wilde

Even things that are true can be proved.