Ironic Quotes - Page 7

• It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.

  Pam Houston

  Dog, Thinking, Pet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Distance, Brooklyn, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.

  Dan Kimball

  Cutting, Vintage, Long

  Dan Kimball (2009). “The Emerging Church”, p.169, Harper Collins

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• It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

  Orlando Figes

  Father, Should Have, People

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Hands, Goal, Vision

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• Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

  Dov Davidoff

  Political, Middle East, Body

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 18, 2011

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• Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

  Dov Davidoff

  Party, Dinner, Misery

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• You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

  Alan Palomo

  Color, Self, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.

  Brian Froud

  New York, Home, Cities

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.

  Rollo May

  Running, Sex, Way

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Past, Men

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Successful, Winning

  "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

  Tony Robbins

  World, Want, Ironic Things

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  War, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.

  Renee Marino

  Hurt, Feel Better, Past

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You see how Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about "anchor babies"? Hillary tweeted, "They aren't called 'anchor babies.' They're called 'babies,'" which is a bit ironic given that Hillary's a big supporter of Planned Parenthood where "babies" are called "tissue mass" and, what, "unviable cells"? Whatever it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Anchors, Cells

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• I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.

  Judith Butler

  Fun, Thinking, Play

  Source: ilga.org

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• We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.

  Renee Marino

  Feel Better, Lost, Here And Now

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Communication, Watches, Littles

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

  Andrew Solomon

  Long, Church, Should

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.

  Nick Kroll

  Boys, Thinking, Wish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Skins, Actors, Way

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Successful, Wife

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Christian, Religious, Morning

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• I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

  James Franco

  Thieves, Juniors, Junior High

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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