I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
Israel Horovitz
WritingWinAwardsIronyRadical
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
Octavio Paz
ArtLawSpiritIronySameOwn
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
Adam McKay
WantMustacheIronySeeBrian
The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
Jillian Michaels
SympathyBelievePersonIronyVery
As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
Andre Aciman
BrotherMePersonEgyptWriteIrony
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
Jean Stafford
FeelMoralityIronyHighI Feel
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
Mary Ellen Mark
RealityFindingIronyInterested
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.
Corey Taylor
TeenMeYouSpiritIronyLine
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
William Hurt
WisdomProblemYouInformationIrony
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
Richard Fleeshman
SomeoneYouCountryNeverIrony
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Lionel Trilling
HumorImpossibleMoreIronyLittle
My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
Fred Funk
TimeBestWaitingPeopleSlowIrony
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
PeopleIronyDefenseUseMechanism
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis Morissette
CreativeMeEyeSomeoneEnjoyIrony
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
Carter Burwell
HappyPeopleBeing HappyIronyBeing
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
WalkSpaceIronyMovementDelay
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Damian Lewis
PlayIronyComingBritishBackground
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
Jim Crace
CountryMoralWayWriteIronyTone
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
John Ortberg
LoveLawLookingDownIronyEssence
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
WorkBestWorstIronyHappenThings
Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.
Mary H.K. Choi
PlaceIronyToneInstagram
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.
Cliff Stearns
JusticeReligionWeekIronyConcrete
The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.
Peter Morgan
FeelSomeoneYouMoreIronyReveal
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Richard Holbrooke
PeaceWorldTryingIronyOverBring
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