It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Just because there are plenty of fish in the sea. Doesn't mean any of them will like you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
People that cant hold in their anger, are to weak to hold it back. People that hold in their anger, are to… — Chris Castillo Copy Share Image
“She had hit rock-bottom. She had given a blow job to a man who for all intents and purposes, was a bum.… — A.T. Hicks Copy Share Image
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I saw that my life was a vast glimmering empty page and I could do anything I wanted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
It's funny how when I'm loud, people tell me to be quiet. But when I'm quiet, people ask me what's wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
So alarming watching a movie based on a book, and realizing I had been mispronouncing a main characters names wrong in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image