Examples Of Irony In Literature Quotes

#1. Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.

Christian Hosoi

#2. I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

Victor LaValle

#3. I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

Jane Pauley

#4. So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

Adam Lambert

#5. In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Linus Pauling

#7. Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Jennifer Weiner

#8. Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

Erica Jong

#9. I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Aida Turturro

#10. The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Emmanuel Jal

#11. It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Guy Kawasaki

#12. She had no idea how much I wanted to make her my wife, no clue as to how many nights I fell asleep with that image on my mind.

Ashlan Thomas

#13. Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift. - Becker's Health IT & CIO Review magazine, October 11, 2013

Robert Wachter

#14. If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

Thomas Szasz

#15. If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.

Reginald Arvizu