Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.” — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'? — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Would you prefer to die and become one of us, or become one of us and then die...? Take your pick.” — Yuyuko Saigyouji Copy Share Image
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be… — Johann Rupert Copy Share Image
“How ironic it was that mortals, who had the least time of all, were willing to waste so much of it away… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.' — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“It's ironic that I'd use you for my wingman, when I want to fuck you more than any of the women here.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“They piled into Irene's Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience.” — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in… — Rose George Copy Share Image
It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“You know what I find ironic? My homophobic mother offers you her cabbage rolls as a truce and you respond by asking… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“My mother was an angel,” I blurted. “A guardian angel.” Kaidan began to chuckle. “What's so funny?” I asked. “You. You're a… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel,… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
“It was ironic because we would be tested tonight. Our foundation would be shaken, and for a minute, I would forget who… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. — Zero Mostel Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image