Making a film that’s supposed to be fun to watch is really hard – that’s the weird irony of it.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they’re charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don’t even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland.
Well, it’d certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers’ emotion or the way in which you engage the readers’ emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people’s sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.
The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada’s Pacific Coast.
I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn’t work when I was seven, people did not laugh.
Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we’d work all the time, and we’d always get better. But it’s not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.
My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of ‘Pro Femina.’ So I had a stamp made that said ‘irony, irony, irony’ to put on a postcard and mail it back.
Bourgeois values aren’t just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead.
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you’re in the same country as someone.
I think the great irony of history will be that it was a secular billionaire from New York who turned out the be the most faith-friendly president in history.
Here’s the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.
I like grit. I like love and death. I’m tired of irony.
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
It is an irony that the era of crafty villains such as Gabbar Singh or Mogambo has gone away.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.
I love the irony. I’m perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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.’
You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to make a song about saving money because it’s ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we’ve always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Yes, of course that’s true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I’d pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
I’d been wanting to audition for the Raiderettes for a while. The irony is that I didn’t have time when I was in law school, but as a practicing attorney I did. I’ve been dancing since I was 3, so it’s natural to want that part of my life, the love of performing, satisfied.
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured – an irony that seems to elude most of today’s elected officials.
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned – not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
It’s no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
I am aware it’s easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.
I like the irony in my work.
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There’s a message there.
It’s kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America’s problems was World War II.
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
My dad is so unique in what he does. It’s not like I’m taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I’ve carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
