Ironizing Quotes

#1. I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

Gregory Pardlo

#2. But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Kenji Miyazawa

#3. Scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

George Eliot

#4. I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

Olivia Palermo

#5. But it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life.

Andrea L'Artiste

#7. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head.

Jennifer Aniston

#9. The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

Kevin Costner

#10. We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#11. Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.

Sandra Postel

#12. I'd come to terms with what I did long ago. The bodies, the blood, the tears of those left behind. Even the fact I was probably going to burn in hell didn't bother me. Much.

Jennifer Estep

#13. An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:

David Bentley Hart

#14. I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism ... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Nobuo Uematsu

#16. Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

Jackie DeShannon