Oxymoron Examples Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. — Gina Bellman

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. — Matt Chandler

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. — Carl Jung

Harry the spider! they want me to tap dance. I don't want to tap dance! — J.K. Rowling

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. — Antonio Porchia

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose. — Bobby Jindal

For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better ... — John Lennon

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. — Noam Chomsky

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. — Gustave Flaubert