The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them. — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
College is like a woman; You work so hard to get in and nine months later you wish you'd never come. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
School is like riding a roller coaster. When it starts you want it to stop, but when it stops, you want it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine,… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
“Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
“Do we have to say goodnight? It just feels so final… And then it feels like I HAVE to go to sleep,… — Coco Moodysson Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that… — Ayda Field Copy Share Image
“I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.” — Genevieve Ross Copy Share Image
“Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing a paper on time management the day before it's due. There's irony to be found here somewhere... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Life is too ironical to understand... it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After you break up with someone, it's like the whole universe trys its best for you two to run into each other. — Evangeline Willis Copy Share Image
The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony? — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
“The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.” — Geoffrey Wall Copy Share Image
“O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.” — A Gentleman Copy Share Image
“Creio que todo o homem ama sempre a mulher a quem está a beijar, ainda que seja por desespero,...” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated. — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
The irony of it - that we are one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet there is such a gap… — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
“Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.” — Lee Strauss Copy Share Image
“I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for… — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doin' while others judge us by what we had already done... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People say that bad memories causes the most pain, but actually it's the good ones that drive you insane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image