Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.
With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.
It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.
All of Iraq's oil fields are under U. S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. . . in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane]. ' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing.
There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.
Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.