After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you,… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.” — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them. — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
You see how Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about "anchor babies"? Hillary tweeted, "They aren't called 'anchor… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
One of the real costs of the war is that our security is actually less than it otherwise would have been -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even… — Oren Moverman 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
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
“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
It's so ironic. The one's who claim they're evolving don't ever change. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image