He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.” — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“That's ironic, because I always thought you were the ugliest out of all the angels.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It's ironic, how people who say I'm going to be here for you. Are also the ones who walk away first. — Justice Cabral Copy Share Image
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place… — Renee Marino Copy Share Image
Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
“He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next… — Janice Hardy Copy Share Image
Ironic how we know that the person is going hurt us again, but we keep coming back for more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We… — Dan Kimball 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
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
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“Morning, Peter,” she calls from the back, in her exaggerated German accent. Mawning, Pedder. She’s been in the States more than fifteen… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“How ironic! After decades of grub, deluges of wine and alcohol of every sort, after a life spent in butter, cream, rich… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's so ironic. The one's who claim they're evolving don't ever change. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that. — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image