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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.
My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.
I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.
Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.
