Irony Quotes - Page 11

• When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.

  Simon Sinek

  Safe, Quitting, Working It

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

  Heather Brewer

  Vampire

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.146, Penguin

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• Even things that are true can be proved.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ironic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

  E. M. Forster

  Gratitude, Children, Love Life

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.109, Booklassic

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• Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!" it said.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Cutting, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert," Iggy said truthfully.

  James Patterson

  Hands, Shoes, Trying

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• With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's such an irony! You're saying that the world is a global village, but then you want to spend crores of rupees on building nuclear weapons.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Hands, Borders

  Source: progressive.org

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• The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, People, Understanding

  Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk

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• The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, Abortion, Tragedy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  David LaChapelle

  California, Trying, Bulls

  Source: wwd.com

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• The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

  Francis Chan

  Want Him, Needs, Departure

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.42, David C Cook

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• My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Ironic, Comment

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• To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Creative, Way

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• What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

  John Podhoretz

  Hero, People, Evil

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• I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment they don't exist. At times, I tell myself, Well, I can always go back and change that or take it out, and I find out that I rarely do. Couple little things here and there: Do unto others. Be a good scout. With all the ironies that entails, I go by that. That's a good way to live.

  Nick Tosches

  Couple, Writing, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You see a lot of interesting visual irony on movie sets all the time, you know duality, set illusions, the reality, all that stuff. You play with interesting materials that you couldn't afford to otherwise. You meet interesting people that you work with, have special machinists or mold makers and make-up people, and people who make prosthetic appliances for actress' faces. It's really interesting kind of witch's brew of people in that business, aside from the sleeze bags you hear about on the financial end.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Reality, People, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the symbol of intelligence for its heroes, for its top characters, all the time. So it's from "Casablanca" to "Harry Potter." You always have chess as a very important element to demonstrate intelligence, while in normal life people think it's just a weird intelligence - like AI.

  Garry Kasparov

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

  Amy Tan

  Skills, People, Survivor

  "Ghosts at my shoulder" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2001.

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• I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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• I think the Republican tax law is so bad that it almost guarantees a Republican victory, precisely because it's so bad. The seeming irony is that it's so bad that it enables the Democratic Party to think, "A-ha, all we have to do is be the lesser evil.

  Michael Hudson

  Party, Thinking, Evil

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