Quotes About Irony

I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.

man makes plans. God laughs

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion. Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995

A što s beskrajnim trudom da prona?eš ravnotežu izme?u osje?aja i ironije, ljepote i strogosti, i pritom otvoriš pukotinu u supstanci svijeta kroz koju bi mogla zasjati istina za smrtnike?

Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.

As the old saying goes, "If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

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Kelly Heath had played second base in the Royals organization, and had exactly one major league at bat, in 1982, after the Royals regular second baseman, Frank White, decided in the middle of a game that his hemorrhoids were bothering him. As one of the other scouts put it, Kelly was the only player in history whose entire big league career was made possible by a single asshole. Chris Pittaro had played second base for

I have hated hypocrisy and deception all my life, yet all my life I have been victim to it. That is the terrible irony.

It is ironic that I saved both myself and those I cared for by recalling, at the crucial moment, my identity as an ordinary mortal. There are subtle dangers to the role of hero. I am glad I no longer have to consider them.

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

Banality depends on memory, as do irony and abstraction and boredom, three other defenses the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.