In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact,… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that God is quite cruel? He first shows you this world - makes us feel we could possess anything… — Tower Of God Copy Share Image
“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still / The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story,… — Lemony Snicket 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
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If you see me walking with someone else, it's not because I love him, it's because you're not brave enough to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart… — R. Scott Bakker 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
“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
“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
We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky 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 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 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
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
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
“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
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
