In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation. — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.” — Lorde Copy Share Image
Whats the worst way to miss someone...its to sit right beside her knowing that u can never have her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life has a way of testing a persons will either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at… — Jerome Roldan Copy Share Image
“The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
“It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far… — Laura Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and… — Bruce Katz Copy Share Image
The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole… — Feist Copy Share Image
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“The pig was always there staring at me, as I took off my clothes, I wondered if he could be turned on… — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
Going shopping with money and nothing to find; Going shopping without money & wanting everything in sight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.” (p. 3) It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now… — Rachel E. Carter Copy Share Image
“Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods? A murder of crows,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The more we saw, the less we could believe. The more we looked, the fewer things we found to retrieve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their coping mechanisms, Mom. Some hide behind silk scarves and boutique cafés. Others stick to sarcasm. Chapter 4” — Irina Semikop Copy Share Image
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Don't be flattered that he misses you, he should miss. But remember he is the one that broke up — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
I desperately try to find reasons to hold on to him, however the more I search, the more reasons I find to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image