Irony Quotes - Page 8

I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

The streets are silent /
The playgrounds are still /
The noise has moved elsewhere /
Into our homes /
Into our hearts /
It’s been too long /
Children are not where they belong /
The streets, the playgrounds and the song /
Have been waiting for too long…

It would be dreadfully
ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.

I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.

What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.