Ironic Quotes

358 quotes by 316 authors

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old… — Bono
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,… — Sherman Alexie
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. — Arthur C. Clarke
It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing… — Cesar Chavez
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. — Tom Robbins
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying… — Berkeley Breathed
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring… — Cesar Chavez
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body — George Carlin
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that… — Eddie Vedder
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,… — Paula Gunn Allen
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given… — Bob Barr
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order… — Ronald Reagan
I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to… — Rob Corddry
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to… — Simon Pegg
It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor — Marcia Cross
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].'… — Robert Pattinson
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. — William H. Macy

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