Ironic Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Who I Am, People, Heritage

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• 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.'

  Jessica Simpson

  Athlete, Men, Thinking

  "Jessica in Love!". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Moon, Sentimental

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• 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.

  Rob Corddry

  Pieces, Want, Comedy

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• How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Real, War

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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

  Marcia Cross

  Real, Doctors, Kind

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• Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

  Drake

  Life, Death, Humble

  Song: Moment 4 Life, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester

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• It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Attitude, Insane World, Self

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• Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

  Francois Mauriac

  Best Friend, Tired, Misunderstood

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• Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.

  Michael Moore

  Pain, Hands, Giving

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

  Paul Beatty

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Rip, Book, Thinking

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.40, Laurel Leaf

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• Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what’s wrong with this thing? Can’t you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not ‘Dammit, Vik’ and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Views, Names

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• 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.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Country, Dating, Vampire

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1111, Penguin

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

  Michael Parenti

  Mean, People, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• 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!

  Rita Dove

  Twilight, Years, World

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• 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

  Inspirational, Names, Liberty

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• My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Fighting, Past

  "David Foster Wallace" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. September 29, 2008.

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• In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Freedom, Home

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

  Orson Scott Card

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

  John M. Gottman

  Interesting

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• Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Arrogance, Pedestal

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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

  Attention, Wonder, Universe

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.13, Macmillan

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