Ironists Quotes & Sayings

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail. — Biz Stone

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates. — Harold Bloom

Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. — David Foster Wallace

I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane. I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws. I — Elisabeth Hewer

We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help. — Michael Dell

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission. — Dorothy Day

Husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue — J.R. Ward

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. — David Foster Wallace

But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she'd messed up. — Liane Moriarty

Education reveals the potential of people and market. — Toba Beta

They may already know too much about their mother and father
nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis? — Richard Ford

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job. — Robert Knepper