Ironic Quotes - Page 18

• Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Life, Pain, Joy

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”

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• I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Cds, Water

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• The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, People, Irony

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• Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wind, White

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• One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, People, Legacy

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• It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

  Jonathan Turley

  Court, Statutes

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• You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.

  Michael Haneke

  Dog, Hurt, Animal

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• A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Emotional

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Mutants

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, People

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• It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Trying, Want, Way

  "Guess Who Loves Cheap Chic? Sarah Jessica Parker". Interview with Bob Morris, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

  Joss Whedon

  Two, People, Woods

  Bronze Beta web message board, www.cise.ufl.edu. February 14, 2004.

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• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  Paul Valery

  Psychics, Empowerment, Originality

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Joking Around, Gestures, Matter

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• A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Young Writers, Bottom

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• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Men, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• 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

  Future, Age, Attention

  "The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1976.

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• Ideas that spread win.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Ideas, Spread

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.38, Penguin

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• Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Sacrifice, Law

  "Facing Death, Christopher Hitchens Affirms Atheism" by Ethan Cole, www.christianpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  "The Revenge of the Baby-Sat". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1991.

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