Ironic Quotes - Page 10

• I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Colin Quinn...Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

  Barry Humphries

  Memorable, Humor, Laughing

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• It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Groups, Ends

  Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

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• You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Rip, Book, Thinking

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.40, Laurel Leaf

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• Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what’s wrong with this thing? Can’t you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not ‘Dammit, Vik’ and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Views, Names

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• I drink to forget I drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Alcohol, Forget

  "Miss Charming's Guide for Hip Bartenders and Wayout Wannabes: Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar and Cocktail Resource". Book by Cheryl Charming, p. 137, 2006.

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• It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Happiness, Irony, Sometimes

  Alexander McCall Smith (2002). “Morality for Beautiful Girls”, Anchor

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• I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'

  Jessica Simpson

  Athlete, Men, Thinking

  "Jessica in Love!". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

  Jennifer Egan

  Stars, Real, Book

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.262, Anchor

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• Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  People, Doe

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• It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

  Christopher Pike

  Dark, Goal, Path

  Christopher Pike (2011). “Thirst No. 4: The Shadow of Death”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  Kami Garcia

  Funny Things, Giving, Kind

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• They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

  Neal Stephenson

  Soul, Signals, Young

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Lying, Telling Lies

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.180, Egmont UK

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• It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Believe, Scientist, Closest

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• When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

  Gavin de Becker

  Running, Mean, Volcanoes

  Gavin De Becker (1999). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, Doubleday

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• My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

  Russell Brand

  Sweet, Boys, Thinking

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, People, Tragedy

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

  Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

  Inspirational, Work, Long

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• My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Fighting, Past

  "David Foster Wallace" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. September 29, 2008.

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• John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

  Jerry Saltz

  Knowing, Balance, Emotion

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• It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

  Howard Schultz

  Who I Am, People, Heritage

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• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Success, Encouraging, Simple

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

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• The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

  Orson Scott Card

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