Expenses Quote by Gaston Bachelard

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at…

— Douglas Coupland

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able…

— Werner Herzog

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

— Barbara Kruger

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world…

— Douglas Coupland

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example…

— Daniel Handler

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through…

— Daniel Handler

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met…

— Robertson Davies

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and…

— David Foster Wallace