Top 33 Oxymoron Quotes

The term ‘demilitarized Palestinian state’ is an oxymoron.

Elvis Presley was rock ‘n’ roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

I think that ‘celebrity’ and ‘chef’ should be a permanent oxymoron.

I’m a huge walking oxymoron. People think they’re going to get something that’s a lot different from what they get.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

This is the problem with the United States: there’s no leadership. A leader would say, ‘Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you’re no longer police.’ So, what, we’re not dealing with police. We’re dealing with a federally authorized gang.

There is no ‘recycle too much.’ That’s an oxymoron.

The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’

I find the term ‘perfect child’ to be an oxymoron.

If you think the dominant orthodoxy – shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow – is an oxymoron… then you would be right.

And I have a really great agent and I know it’s almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

I learned why ‘out riding alone’ is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

The business of music. You know, it’s an oxymoron in a sense. It’s like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don’t go together.

‘Doing your own thing’ and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God’s will can be done.

Placing ‘amicable’ and ‘separation’ together creates an oxymoron – we don’t usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn’t exist anymore.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can’t happen, it won’t happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Celebrity farmer. Now there’s a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.

Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can’t play cricket without any rules.

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It’s a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

I’ve been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

Sadly, I don’t really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It’s an oxymoron. If ‘classic fashion’ really never changed, we’d all still be wearing togas.

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It’s very rare that there is something that’s actually financial innovation. It’s a euphemism for hiding leverage.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don’t invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it’s an oxymoron.

I believe that ‘advocacy journalism’ is not an oxymoron. If that means that I’m going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.