“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.” — Wolf Pascoe Copy Share Image
The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The irony of capitalist discontent with democracy is that capitalist democracy has been a very good deal for capitalists. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People are obsessed with the front seat of the car but when you get in a bus, you go straight to the… — Tanya Bianco Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
“I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
When you see it, its leaving, when you need it, its gone, when you have no use for it at all, its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The irony of life is if you have not travelled a persons journey, you will never know what troubles he has encountered… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish.… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that… — Diana Rowland Copy Share Image
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris: The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The Greeks believe the Fates are three sisters: one is Order, who spins out the linear thread of a life from the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system,… — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
“The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The world is made up of kids who cant wait to grow up...and adults who wish they hadnt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the heaviest things we lift and carry are not our weights, but our feels... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image