“He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way — John Zorn Copy Share Image
People want what they can't have and once they get it they don't want it anymore. — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
“It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember" (from Swimming Upstream).” — Ruth Mancini Copy Share Image
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“There are things that happen in our life but we dont want them to happen. Irony is they happen in front of… — Lovely Goyal Copy Share Image
“If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I’d eat dirt,” I said, “at least dirt isn’t overpriced."… — Garrison Kelly Copy Share Image
What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
When we think of love, we think of the happy kind of love, the kind that is the beginning of something beautiful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling. All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“ The Blue Jay's Lullaby— Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets, Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets, Grasshoppers,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades;… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place. There's irony in what… — Kesha Copy Share Image
“But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more you show your true love feelings, the more people find ways to hurt you. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Banker: One who lends you an umbrella on a fine day and demands it back when it rains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image