Oxymoronic Quotes

#1. The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic - geeky and rich and hip.

Douglas Coupland

#2. I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

#3. An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists ... Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen.
[Time 1937]

Time-Life Books

#4. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

Greg Egan

#5. Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

#6. The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

Joel Spencer

#7. The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

Bernd Heinrich

#8. See for me, it's immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn't sure which.

Sarah Dessen

#9. I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like that. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt.

Will Oldham

#10. As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Steve Rushin

#11. In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Yuriy Tarnawsky

#12. I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

Billy Joel

#13. Good morning, Mr. Mitchell." "It is a good morning, isn't it, Sherry? Could you possibly give him the memo?" He pointed to his brother. "I think he missed it.

Ella Frank

#14. Ronan, for his part, couldn't quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. "It's a whole industry of bullshit," he said.

Michael Lewis

#15. The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Anaxagoras

#16. Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

Alice Oswald

#17. Many races were mixed in her, and she was better than any of them taken separately. In looks, in smell, in taste.

Vadim Babenko

#18. But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed.
And, of course, completely fake.

Ally Carter

#19. Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#20. You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

Pharoahe Monch