Top 1200 Ironic Things Quotes & Sayings

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

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.

Obama administration has been the most narcotics-jailing administration ever. I just think it's so ironic and underhanded. It's so contrary to the consciousness and the feeling of the rest of the country. With a Democrat running things, it's still just the same things going on.

I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. I don't even know what they are. Because I sense from a distance that I don't want to know. And therefore even if I had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. Which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.

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?

Ironic things are interesting.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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

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

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

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

No one can write down all the crazy things that have happened for me, and coming back to work for the NFL is the most ironic part of all.

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

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

I kept thinking about how ironic it is how people who live in places where there is diversity tend to love it - and the people that don't live in particularly diverse places tend to be the ones attacking it. In a way, that's similar to music, which is essentially the art of bringing things together.

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.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

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

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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.

I would say my work is anti-ironic.

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

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

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.

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

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

It really is ironic that the saddest I'd ever been was when I had 'achieved' all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.

There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.

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

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.

I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.

It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.

Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.

What I never seem to understand about feminist-bashing conservative women is their inability to see how ironic it is that they attend political rallies, share their opinions, and cast their ballots when the America they're nostalgic about wouldn't allow them to do any of those things.

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

I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

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

I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?

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.

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

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

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

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.

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

Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

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

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.

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