Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
~ Bill Nye
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
~ Maurice Sendak
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
~ Colin Firth
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~ John Zorn
I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.
~ Thom Browne
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
~ Jessamyn West
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~ Agnes Repplier
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~ Lionel Trilling
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
~ Anatole Broyard
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
~ Harlan Coben
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.
~ Corey Taylor
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
~ Karl Marlantes
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
~ Penn Jillette
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
~ Greg Graffin
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~ Frederick Douglass
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
~ David Foster Wallace
The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
~ Jillian Michaels
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
~ James Wan
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
~ Anatole France
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
~ William Hurt
The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.
~ John Hoeven
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.
~ Willie Geist
