People want what they can't have and once they get it they don't want it anymore. — Muniir Zero 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
“He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes… — Josephine de La Baume 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
It's really complicated to make something simple but very simple to make something complicated. — Asanda Kutwana Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust,… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
“You guessed it! And you say you aren't creative!" "We did not guess anythiung. We deduced it from the plethora of data… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an… — Samuel R. Delaney Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“For once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“My life only has a meaning insofar as I lack one: oh, but let me be mad! Make something of all this… — Georges Bataille 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
The more you show your true love feelings, the more people find ways to hurt you. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Girlfriends are like credit cards, you can't get one unless you already have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image