Quotes about Ironic

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. Votes: 4

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. Votes: 4

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Votes: 3

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite Votes: 3

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job. Votes: 3

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. Votes: 3

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion. Votes: 3

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it. Votes: 3

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments. Votes: 3

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean. Votes: 3

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first... Votes: 3

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it? Votes: 3

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. Votes: 3

Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night. Votes: 3

The prince of darkness is a gentleman! Votes: 2

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. Votes: 2

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. Votes: 2

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. Votes: 2

Even things that are true can be proved. Votes: 2

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. Votes: 2

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Votes: 2

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. Votes: 2

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Votes: 2

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. Votes: 2

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. Votes: 2

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. Votes: 2

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. Votes: 2

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Votes: 2

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Votes: 2

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. Votes: 2

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. Votes: 2

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. Votes: 2

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. Votes: 2

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. Votes: 2

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Votes: 2

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. Votes: 2

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. Votes: 2

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. Votes: 2

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am. Votes: 2

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. Votes: 2

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. Votes: 2

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. Votes: 2

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. Votes: 2

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. Votes: 2

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me. Votes: 2

I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for [fame]. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do. Votes: 2

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry. Votes: 2

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. Votes: 2

I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc. Votes: 2

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. Votes: 2

How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball. Votes: 2

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. Votes: 2

Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes. Votes: 2

I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. Votes: 2

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Votes: 2

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected. Votes: 2

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner. Votes: 2

The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. Votes: 2

Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world. Votes: 2

It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with. Votes: 2

I would say my work is anti-ironic. Votes: 0

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic." Votes: 0

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous. Votes: 0

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she'd captivated him. Votes: 0

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not, Votes: 0

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism Votes: 0

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God. Votes: 0

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist. Votes: 0

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark. Votes: 0

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. Votes: 0

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties. Votes: 0

It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses. Votes: 0

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. Votes: 0

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket. Votes: 0

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. Votes: 0

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart Votes: 0

It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons. Votes: 0

And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die. Votes: 0

I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that. Votes: 0

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. Votes: 0

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. Votes: 0

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. Votes: 0

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'? Votes: 0

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it. Votes: 0

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. Votes: 0

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. Votes: 0

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home. Votes: 0

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. Votes: 0

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor. Votes: 0

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep Votes: 0

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor Votes: 0

It's ironic how those with the most loving arms are the ones who get the most hate. Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. Votes: 0

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides Votes: 0

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. Votes: 0

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! Votes: 0

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. Votes: 0

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. Votes: 0

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby. Votes: 0

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation. Votes: 0

It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god. Votes: 0

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity. Votes: 0

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV. Votes: 0

Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out? Votes: 0

Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that. Votes: 0

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic. Votes: 0

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever. Votes: 0

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. Votes: 0

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high. Votes: 0

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore. Votes: 0

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. Votes: 0

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear Votes: 0

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. Votes: 0

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. Votes: 0

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic? Votes: 0

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. Votes: 0

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years. Votes: 0

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels. Votes: 0

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy. Votes: 0

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. Votes: 0

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them. Votes: 0

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards. Votes: 0

It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. Votes: 0

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners? Votes: 0

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. Votes: 0

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. Votes: 0

It's ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine Votes: 0

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. Votes: 0

I'm comfortable looking sexy. I don't push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That's what makes it fun. Votes: 0

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work. Votes: 0

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride. Votes: 0

It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up. Votes: 0

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next. Votes: 0

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. Votes: 0

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. Votes: 0

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. Votes: 0

All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners. Votes: 0

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Votes: 0

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security. Votes: 0

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours. Votes: 0

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL Votes: 0

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? Votes: 0

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy. Votes: 0

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East. Votes: 0

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you. Votes: 0

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer. Votes: 0

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism. Votes: 0

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation. Votes: 0

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another. Votes: 0

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. Votes: 0

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. Votes: 0

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth. Votes: 0

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again. Votes: 0

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. Votes: 0

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic. Votes: 0

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic. Votes: 0

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world. Votes: 0

I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply. Votes: 0

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people! Votes: 0

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. Votes: 0

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony. Votes: 0

I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time. Votes: 0

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job. Votes: 0

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play. Votes: 0

I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out. Votes: 0

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality. Votes: 0

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves. Votes: 0

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Votes: 0

Across his forehead was stamped the word WORTHLESS. How ironic. Exactly what someone might find stamped on his own forehead if they could see it. Physician, heal thyself. Votes: 0

We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better. Votes: 0

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, Christianminority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! Votes: 0

You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles. Votes: 0

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others. Votes: 0

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. Votes: 0

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books. Votes: 0

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. Votes: 0

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power. Votes: 0

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. Votes: 0

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem. Votes: 0

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece. Votes: 0

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Votes: 0

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile. Votes: 0

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage. Votes: 0

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing Votes: 0

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. Votes: 0

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about. Votes: 0

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic. Votes: 0

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, "Christian" minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! Votes: 0

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children? Votes: 0

It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. Votes: 0

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. Votes: 0

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater. Votes: 0

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical. Votes: 0

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it. Votes: 0

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.' Votes: 0

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas". Votes: 0

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda? Votes: 0

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating. Votes: 0

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds! Votes: 0

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far. Votes: 0

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?' Votes: 0

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. Votes: 0

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. Votes: 0

The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity. Votes: 0

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know? Votes: 0

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand. Votes: 0

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. Votes: 0

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! Votes: 0

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. Votes: 0

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies. Votes: 0

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic. Votes: 0

I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels that take a wry, humorous, ironic look at modern life. Votes: 0

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art. Votes: 0

Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out. Votes: 0

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination. Votes: 0

It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.... Votes: 0

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like. Votes: 0

I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead. Votes: 0

It's because I'm pregnant, Christian.He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make you eat, I might have done it earlier. Votes: 0

It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt. Votes: 0

None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it. Votes: 0

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..].... Votes: 0

Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment? Votes: 0

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.... Votes: 0

Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others. Votes: 0

One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us. Votes: 0

I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20. Votes: 0

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified. Votes: 0

[I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child's school or joining a union. Votes: 0

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it. Votes: 0

It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent. Votes: 0

It's ironic to think that behaviors we consider neurotic are actually holding the word in place - but sooner or later whatever protection they offer decays.And it's so much work.So damn much work. Votes: 0

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified. Votes: 0

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity. Votes: 0

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. Votes: 0

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic. Votes: -1