Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.
Irony is wasted on the stupid
I like the irony in my work.
Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you ...
He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can’t be done. I told him I had bee...
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetor...
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
The irony of life is we live to work and work to live
Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "...
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
I do love irony. It’s so…complicated and coincidental.
Diamond is the hardest substance, but the Irony, it is also brittle.
