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Tag Name "Irony" (371)

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I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.
Richard Dawkins
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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice Abbott
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There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.
Dinah Washington
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
Barney Frank
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One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
Diane Ravitch
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Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.
Sean Faircloth
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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
Sherman Alexie
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You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.
Karan Mahajan
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I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.
Eve Ensler
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
Catherynne M. Valente
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But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.
Hermann Weyl
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.
Jack D. Schwager
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The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.
Royal Robbins
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Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Gloria Steinem
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The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!
Steven Weber
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The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
Joe Conason
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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
John Hurt
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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Cliff Stearns
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The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.
Arundhati Roy
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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
Harry Kalas
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