Quotes and Sayings About Ironic
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
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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.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
-- Alice Munro -
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
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.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
-- Bob Barr -
You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.
-- Bruno Latour -
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
-- Carl L. BeckerSource : Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)
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(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.
-- Cesar Chavez -
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.
-- Chris Weitz -
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.
-- Christopher HeyerdahlSource : "Christopher Heyerdahl Talks HELL ON WHEELS and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2011.
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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.
-- Christopher Pike -
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.
-- Conrad Hyers -
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.
-- Cynthia McKinney -
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
-- Dario FoSource : "Fo delights his audience with boyhood tales" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2005.
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I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
-- David -
I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.
-- Deb Caletti -
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.
-- Diane ArbusSource : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr. -
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.
-- Earl Warren -
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
-- Ed Ayres -
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
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.
-- Elizabeth WeinSource : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.180, Egmont UK
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What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
-- Ellen LangerSource : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.33, Ballantine Books
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Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
-- Ellen LangerSource : Ellen Langer (2010). “Counterclockwise: A Proven Way to Think Yourself Younger and Healthier”, p.13, Hachette UK
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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
-- Eric Idle