Quotes having the keyword Irony
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
by Manuel Puig (Author, Argentinian , born in 1932) keywords: innermost, irony, needs, our, power, reduce, should, their, try, understand , use Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
by Agnes Repplier (Writer, American , born in 1855) topics: Humor keywords: brings, deeper, friendly, humor, insight, irony, less, tolerance , understanding The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
by Frank Shorter (Athlete, American , born in 1947) keywords: athlete, become, children, different, ironic, irony, kind, lot, makes, particular, perspective, professional, stars, successful, these , young Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
by Steven Soderbergh (Director, American , born in 1963) keywords: film, fun, hard, irony, making, really, supposed, watch , weird 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.
by Cliff Stearns (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: above, against, cases, chief, commandments, concrete, court, display, displayed, head, hearing, hostility, irony, justice, last, outright, recent, religion, supreme, ten, these, week , years It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
by Jock Sturges (Photographer, American , born in 1947) keywords: ends, government, inevitably, invariably, irony, most, precisely, promoting, repress, small, up, which , would Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
by Lionel Trilling (Critic, American , born in 1905) keywords: ever, generate, humor, impossible, irony, little, more, probably, revolutionary, than , weapon 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.
by David Foster Wallace (Writer, American , born in 1962) keywords: above, apart, flaws, gets, great, irony, see, splits, them, thing, things , up The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
by David Foster Wallace (Writer, American , born in 1962) keywords: art, diagnosed, irony, once, problem, realities, revealed, rules, then , unpleasant Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.
by Sela Ward (Actor, American , born in 1956) keywords: actually, agreed, back, book, chance, every, get, go, having, intimidating, irony, life, main, never, property, reasons, very, wanted, way, which, wonderful, write , wrote A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
by Jessamyn West (Author, American , born in 1902) topics: Humor keywords: appreciate, breaking, hearts, humor, irony, joke, kept, more, oneself, sense, takes, taste, than , which The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
by Christine Todd Whitman (Politician, American , born in 1946) keywords: administration, any, change, climate, combined, development, here, industrialized, irony, money, more, research, rest, spending, than , world Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: because, been, blessed, brilliant, debt, directions, drove, enemies, energies, great, irony, new, owe, redoubled, say, them, trace , without
