“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked... "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,'… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact,… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that God is quite cruel? He first shows you this world - makes us feel we could possess anything… — Tower Of God Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still / The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
I can't deny the impact of, obviously, becoming a father and having my son come into this world, and even becoming a… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I was as real to him as he was to me and it struck me just then that I meant something to… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
We are always looking for something better that we sometimes fail to realize that we already have the best we could hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and pay all the proper attentions,… — Mrs. Oliphant Copy Share Image
Humans are strange things. They are the most proud on the outside during the times they are the most insecure on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image