Ironic Things – Quotes

One ironic thing is

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It’s interesting … Read more

The surest sign that

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony. Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody can write such

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical. Franklin P. Adams

I have many friends

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family. Conor Oberst

(Farm workers) are involved

(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that … Read more

It’s an ironic thing

It’s an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up – ’cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we’d actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.
Aasif Mandvi