Irony Quotes - Page 18

• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  Mo Rocca

  Song, Rain, Laughing

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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, Ironic

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• I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

  Nora Ephron

  Hurt, Two, Feminist

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.135, Vintage

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• I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

  Carl Sagan

  Hatred, Vision, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.199, Ballantine Books

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• Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Guy, Stronger

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• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

  Randy Newman

  Kids, Years, Worry

  "'I'm Dreaming of a White President': Randy Newman on His New Song". Interview with Ben Yagoda, www.slate.com. September 18, 2012.

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• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  Charles Beaumont

  Sex, Men, Earth

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• By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

  Mason Cooley

  Commitment, Responsibility, Multiplying

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• It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Teeth, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

  Scott Capurro

  America, British, Prove

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• Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

  David Denby

  Clueless, Flow, Selling

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• Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

  Paul Fussell

  Fuel, Innocence

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Morning, Mirrors, Wake Up

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• Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

  Brando Skyhorse

  Luxury, Able, Pessimism

  Brando Skyhorse (2010). “The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

  Simon Van Booy

  Writing, Royal, Young

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• Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Angel, Giving, Perfection

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• On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Views, Hands

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

  Peter Greenaway

  Distance, Emotional, Thinking

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• We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

  Karl Marlantes

  Zero, Unique, Special

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Iron

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• In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Practice, Games

  Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

  Nick Morgan

  Letting Go, Thinking, Giving

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• It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

  Mark Lawrence

  War, Men, Our Time

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.243, Penguin

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• To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Christian, Community, Triumph

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