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
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
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
“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
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the… — David Ulevitch 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
People who learn to love for the first time is the sweetest ever existing. They give all they can just to make… — Myself Copy Share Image
I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I… — Jerome A. Cohen Copy Share Image
It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,… — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because… — James Roday 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
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“A boggart's arrogance knows no bounds; they fancy themselves above kings and queens." This was so rich that I actually snorted. Lord… — Heather Fawcett Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who… — Pam Houston 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
It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók 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
“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then… — Peter Hook 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
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
“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
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
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“At our core, most of us are still the same as we were when we were young. It's just a matter of… — Scaylen Renvac Copy Share Image
“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow,… — Robert Pattinson 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 peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love. [Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]” quote by Emmanuel Aghado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/414/emmanuel-aghado-36168_happiness_this-life-is-ironic-for-it-takes-pain-to_1362836.jpg)
![“I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing.” quote by Robert Pattinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/robert-pattinson-778_articles_i-like-the-story-about-me-being-pregnant_2574183.jpg)
