Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Megan Ronhovde

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Shanna Zolman

We could have the most difficult, roughest experience throughout my senior year. But if it all ends the way we want it to end ? in the very end with the NCAA Tournament ? it's all worth it.

Scott Turow

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Jason Witten

We have a good era of tight ends right now,

Glenn Greenwald

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

Allen Michel

Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

William McDonough

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Herminio Lucci

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.