Irony Quotes

• When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Needs

• In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

  

  Bernard Holland
  • Motivated
  • Irony
  • Attract

• Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Black
  • Enjoy
  • Paint

• Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Irony
  • Fascism

• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Press
  • Irony

• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • Father
  • Drug
  • Conflict

• I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Mirror
  • Regard
  • Irony

• One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. They're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. And another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • War
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Kids
  • Limitations
  • Irony

• By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Irony
  • Annoyance
  • Telephone Company

• When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Pray
  • Common Sense
  • Irony

• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Country
  • Guy
  • Hate

• 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
  • Black
  • Community
  • Action

• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  

  David Bowie
  • Song
  • Distance
  • Generosity

• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Established

• Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Problem
  • Solutions
  • Environmentalism

• As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Sky
  • Evidence
  • Irony

• I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

  

  Jonathan Raymond
  • Religion
  • Speak
  • Irony

• The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.

  

  Gangaji
  • Amazing
  • Awareness
  • Whole

• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Novel
  • Sincerity
  • Irony

• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sacrifice
  • Sin
  • Bitter

• Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Irony

• Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

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