Quotes About Oxymoron

If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em. Like 'Setbacks,' I knew that was gone be the first one; I knew 'Habits & Contradictions.' I knew 'Oxymoron.' I got two more albums that I already have the title to it, and I know how I'ma play the theme off of it.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.

You can't have protectionism within a free trade agreement. It's an oxymoron."

BLOOM: I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. INTERVIEWER: It's always interminable? BLOOM: I do not know anyone who has ever benefited from Freudian or any other mode of analysis, except by being, to use the popular trope for it, so badly shrunk, that they become quite dried out. That is to say, all passion spent. Perhaps they become better people, but they also become stale and uninteresting people with very few exceptions. Like dried-out cheese, or wilted flowers.

As an author and publisher I work in the entertainment business, which is an oxymoron. Entertainment runs on emotion, while business runs on logic.

Yet "change management," like "Scottish cuisine" and "man bun," is an oxymoron.

Look, unless you're writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron.

Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!

She should have been used to disappointment by now, but pessimism wasn't normally her bag. Lisa would say Sami was a discouraged optimist. An oxymoron for sure.

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

You're lying through your fangs, Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but innocent Fang is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

Art is lost in pop "art" as sport is lost in professional "sport"—which is an oxymoron of the strongest kind. Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity.