I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.”
“Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.”
“Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.”
“Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual toughness that I haven't found in any other type of racing. At the end of the day, challenging myself on all levels is what it's about for me.”
“Ironworkers also settled in Detroit and Buffalo. They were, for the first time in the history of Native Americans, creating a new class--the urban Indian.”
Source: Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City
“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.”
“Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.”
“Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.”
“Irony can be an endearing friend in one moment, and a cruel enemy in the next.”
Source: Second Chance
“Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.”
“Irony; coffee is decaf, milk is lactose-free, candles are wax-free, sooner; nature will be tree-free, the sun will be shine-free and humans emotion-free.”
Source: Slate
“Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.”
“Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.”
“Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.”
“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
“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.”
Source: Within the Context of No Context
“Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.”
Source: House of Leaves
“Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.”
“Irony is a curious concept. Specifically, I mean the classical definition: that of a choice leading to an opposite outcome from what is intended. Many grammarians bemoan the word’s near-constant misuse—sec-ond only in dictional assassination to the way some people use the word “literally.” (Their use of which is ironic.)”
Source: Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do”
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.”
“Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.”
“irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.”
Source: Always Looking: Essays on Art
“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 and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
Source: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
“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 rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
“Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.”
“irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.”
Source: Works
“Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
“Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.”
“Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”
Source: Shibumi: A Novel
“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.”
“Irony is not one of my favorite modes of communication, but I can still recognize it.”
Source: Sleeping Giants
“Irony is that indifference is the most easily learned attitude.”
“Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.”
Source: The Great War and Modern Memory
“Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .”
“Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.”
“Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.”
“Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.”
“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
“Irony is the glory of slaves.”
“Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”
“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”
Source: Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms
“Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.”
“Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.”
“Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.”
“Irony is wasted on the stupid”