Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava flows destroying entire villages, etc. , and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must.
They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square, bound paper that’s been written on. Looks like a book to me. (Acheron) Thank you, Captain Sarcasm. How nice of you to join us again. (Tory)
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt. . .
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.