Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Zawinski

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Neil Diamond

Being lost is worth the being found.

Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Gregory Rodriguez

In a weird way, this tragedy will make it a magnet for opportunity seekers. It's the irony of tragedies.

Fred Moore

Long-term archival storage remains the realm of magnetic tape libraries. Today there is no truly cost-effective ILM strategy without a tape component.

Janet Evanovich

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie

Wole Soyinka

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Alan Arkin

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Al Pacino

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Chris Coons

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue

Chris Albrecht

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.

Chris Albrecht

Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

Chris Alexander

I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

Chris Abani

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chin-Ning Chu

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charles M. Schulz

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Lindsay Martin

It's a weird feeling. I'm still in shock.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Niall Horan

Changing is for weirdos.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Stanton Barrett

It's something with the transmission, ... We had a weird vibration, just couldn't get it up to speed.

Patricia Arquette

It was like being in a weird dream.

Natsuo Kirino

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.