Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins -
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig -
Being lost is worth the being found.
Neil Diamond -
The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
Samuel Barnett -
Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
Joanne Rowling -
I could live a week on one good compliment.
Bill Vaughan -
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
Jennifer Garner -
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
Eben Alexander -
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.
Clem Burke Blondie -
The irony is that Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Nat Hentoff -
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Henry Louis Gates -
Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen -
When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.
Amy Arbus
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She's a total bam bam.
David Bowie -
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill -
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Walter Salles -
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple