Hip Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hip Irony
“Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.” — Lawrence Thornton Copy Share Image
“Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn’t it?” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
“This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you ever don't see irony, it's because you're not seeing everything.” — Eric Hirzel Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene. — Coolio Copy Share Image
I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I'm trying to be 16. — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's… — Naima Adedapo Copy Share Image
It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
“Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment” — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
