Quotes on Ironic

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.