Quotes About Irony

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

Stupidity took me pretty far.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

Stay in drugs, don't do school.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I am in shape. Round is a shape... is not it?

I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced

By saying not to worry he says something worrisome.

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

A book is a beautifully written troll

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.