“Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
“What is ironic is that we recognize the need for education in all other pursuits of life and fail to recognize that… — Gary D. Chapman Copy Share Image
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of… — Sandra Hochman Copy Share Image
I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
People are gonna lie and cheat and play u but don't get mad or cry .because God's showing there true colors.ironic. — Miranda Copy Share Image
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
I was sick a lot, and doctors told my grandmother I'd never grow up to be big and strong. Isn't that ironic? — Howie Long Copy Share Image
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The most ironic thing of all is, I think this will be the most difficult breakup I ever go through, and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. — William Anders Copy Share Image
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. — Sarah Hughes Copy Share Image
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
