Quotes About Irony

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function. Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.

Really?" "No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember." "Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

I was walking through the park. I had a very bad asthmatic attack. These three asthmatics attacked me. I know . . . I should have heard them hiding.

los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros»

Lo apocalíptico exige ser tratado sin excesiva seriedad.

I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.

It is an irony of history that the first and greatest success of scientists in persuading governments of the indispensability of modern scientific theory to society was in the war against fascism. It is an even greater and more tragic irony that it was anti-fascist scientists who convinced the American government of the feasibility and necessity of manufacturing nuclear arms, which were then constructed by an international team of largely anti-fascist scientists.

Not that I want to go, of course. I'll be like the rest of you, clinging on desperately and screaming for more morphine.

I bring messages and thanks from the others. Terry Gilliam sadly can't be with us tonight as they won't let him show his ass, which has been very favorably compared with Spielberg's ass. Graham Chapman can't be with us tonight, as sadly he is still dead. And John Cleese is finishing a movie. He has to get it back to Blockbuster by tomorrow.

many atheistic scientists insist there is never any reason to speculate beyond the universe of matter and energy, because there is nothing beyond that. They insist that the universe is all that is. The problem is that they cannot by any means prove this scientifically, so for them to make this claim at all is itself "unscientific." Ironically, in doing so, such scientists are themselves reaching beyond the world of science.

The irony is that it is often easier to raise money or acquire other resources when you have zero revenue, zero customers, and zero traction than when you have a small amount. Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather

It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

People still use the phrase hoisted by his own petard

faith among the rank and file that everyone above superintendent has had their sense of irony surgically removed. Often the word "proactive" is added at the front to create a kind of litany. O lead us intelligently into the valley of the shadow of limited resources so that we might make our crime targets before the end of the Home Office reporting period—Amen.

I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously," I should have said, "a minor tremor in my hand; I'll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Come hai intenzione di espandere il racconto, di preciso?», mi aveva chiesto l'agente, con uno sguardo distante negli occhi perché stava calcolando la mancia. «Mi proietterò in diversi futuri simultaneamente», avrei dovuto rispondere, «con un lieve tremolio della mano; mi imbarcherò in un percorso dall'ironia alla sincerità nella metropoli che sprofonda, come un aspirante Whitman della vulnerabile rete».

All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'