Isn't it ridiculous that there are so many people out there who are looking for people to love yet there are so… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony. — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“Irony sucks, you know?" Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered… — John Langan Copy Share Image
“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Yet,in this same moment near the end of America,it is hard to imagine a current Congressman,Senator or cabinet member who would go… — Donald Charles Davis Copy Share Image
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
We've lesser minds, but bigger wallets. Bigger houses, less wealth. More food less health, more friends less love. We've bigger schools, but… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how red, white and blue represent freedom until its in your rear view mirror... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
The process of creativity, absorbing aspects of life and channeling it into something shared or tangible - that's my ideal brain food.… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
“It’s often said there’s no sense dwelling on the past, but David disagreed. Sometimes, there was nothing like a good old-fashioned sulk… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“What I’ve come to find is that politics asks who is right, religion asks what is true, and nature asks nothing at… — Sam Loya Copy Share Image
The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about… — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
“The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules,… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image