Irony Quotations | Page 2
Irony Quotes from:
- Mason Cooley
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Oscar Wilde
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Catherynne M Valente
- Christopher Moore
- David Foster Wallace
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- James Patterson
- John Waters
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mike Knezevich
- Aaron Copland
- Al Franken
- Albert Camus
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Alexander Mccall Smith
- Alice Lowe
- Ann Beattie
- Ann Landers
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Advertising Quotes
Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.
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Actions Quotes
It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.
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Ballgame Quotes
The irony is while we're driving more productivity and revenue by switching to broadband POS systems, we need to be far more careful about Internet vulnerabilities. It's a whole new ballgame building an IP network for hundreds of stores that needs to function even if a broadband connection is lost, and has to protect private customer and business information, not to mention facilitate the business of managing the entire network.
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Becoming Quotes
The Cambodian government doesn't seem to understand the sad irony of threatening critics of the prime minister on International Human Rights Day, but the rest of the world does. Cambodia seems to be traveling down the path to becoming an elected dictatorship. It is time for Cambodia's friends in the international community to reengage politically and make it clear to the government that it has to meet its human rights commitments.
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Chinese Quotes
I learnt a lot about Chinese people from this film, ... I don't think we know them very well in this country. Often, they're very closed off in their restaurants: they don't speak to us, and we don't speak to them. With this film, for the first time I had a proper feeling for Chinese people, how nice they are, their wryness, their sense of irony - a lot like us really.
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Bonding Quotes
If people say they can't stand Ray and still watch her, then something else is going on. It's a sort of bonding experience. Online forums have made it easier for people to become sisters and brothers in hate. The irony is that, by writing and talking about her, her critics become her advertisers.
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Cry Quotes
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.
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Against Quotes
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
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Organization Quotes
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.
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Accident Quotes
The irony is that while most of us are optimistic about our futures, the reality is clear that accident and disability are more likely to impact us than we care to acknowledge. Clearly workers with employment disability benefits have an edge, and those that plan for their own individual needs are also ahead of the game.
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Either Quotes
The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And when we do, they're either quite American in style, or very Richard Curtis. And I like Richard Curtis, but I think only Richard Curtis should write Richard Curtis films, and other people should try and find their own style.