Irony Quotes

• 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

• The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Force

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Irony
  • Limitations

• 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

• 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

• 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

• This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt who laughs her head off at the funeral. There rises in me the most inappropriate hysteria in this most somber of places.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • My Heart
  • Fireworks
  • Laughs

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Problem
  • Solutions
  • Environmentalism

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Problem
  • Struggle
  • Quitting

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Constitution
  • University
  • Irony

• Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

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