Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Gore Verbinski

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

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.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

Robert De Niro

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Wale

It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons.

Julian Barnes

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

Suzanne Collins

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

Sxip Shirey

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

Tony Robbins

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Susan Sontag

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Wally Lamb

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.