Common sense isn't common, freedom isn't free, and justice isn't always just. Those principles will never change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Parents sleeping = You being quiet as a mouse. You sleeping = Parents decide to vacuum for 2 hours. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
“I don't want to hurt anyone" Laszlo fiddled with a button on his tux jacket. "Can't we convince the CIA that some… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
Why is it that the greatest irony of love is letting go when you want to hold on, and holding on when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked... "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,'… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence.… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for… — John Green Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
“And the list of traitors?" said Dylan, eying the scroll with an unsavory gleam in his eyes. What did he plan on… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“The irony didn’t escape her, that after years of reading with fascination about swindlers and cheats caught by the authorities, she should… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
