Best 491 quotes in «ironic quotes» category

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

'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.

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

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

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

The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

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

There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

There are no nudists in cold areas.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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

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

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.

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

The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them as they are about us.

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

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

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.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.

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.

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.

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

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to think it's some weird self promotional thing or it's going, but in time I was called upon to like try to persuade other foreign correspondents and journalists to get on Twitter and see the usefulness of it which is kind of ironic. I think the journalists who are leading the digital charge at the Times have, all have that background as a foreign correspondent, which I think is not accidental.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

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!

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

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

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!

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

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"?

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.

A dream a day keeps the mind at play. - The Malwatch

A dream can cut you to the quick surer than a claw. - The Malwatch

A dreammaker can't help but turn all of their experiences into dreams. It preserves their memories beyond their existence. - The Malwatch

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.

A foul feeling will wrinkle my nose as fast as a good one will have me sniffing around to find more. - The Malwatch

A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time." -Spider Jerusalem

All dreams are valid and meaningful, the happy and sorrowful, the hopeful and doubtful, the dark and the enlightening, the logical and illogical. Not all will be pleasant to experience, but all have something to tell us about how the world is interpreted by the minds of those that created them. - The Malwatch

A logical method is madness to one who isn't taught to understand it. - The Malwatch

All possible dreams exist, the normal, the abnormal, the unimaginable. Without action, they have no consequence, so why are some considered nightmares, and others fantasy? - The Malwatch

Always work to shape yourself into something, even if you're not sure it's what you want to be. You can always reshape yourself into something else if you don't like the result. -The Malwatch

A new dream always causes a feeling frenzy. - The Malwatch

[...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.

A picture's worth a thousand words, a video's worth a million pictures, and a dream is worth a trillion videos. - The Malwatch

Aramis liked the t-shirt he was given because it had the image of the Grim Reaper on it. He liked the irony, since the Grim Reaper took lives, while he was a saver of lives.