Oxymoron Quotes
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Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.
— Thomas Petzinger
The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
— Tom Schafer
Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron
— John Paul Warren
Fun math is an oxymoron.
— Kiera Cass
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
— Gail Sheehy
An idle genius is an oxymoron.
— James Thornton
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
— Johnny Depp
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
— George Will
Tell them to stand closer apart.
— Samuel Goldwyn
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
— Joe Pantoliano
It's, like, a safety bomb."-Iggy — James Patterson
mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I
— Eric Weiner
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
— Barbara Park
A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.
— Joan Rivers
A Bible-quoting erotica writer--you are quite the oxymoron.
— Tiffany Reisz
Is it just me or do they put the MORON in OXYMORON?
— Melissa Cutler
Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.
— Lois Greiman
Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?''Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon. — David Ebershoff
Why don't you pair'em up in threes?
— Yogi Berra
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
— James Patterson
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
— Madeleine Albright
The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.
— Donald Trump
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
— Johnny Carson
If something is unbearable, then how do you bear it? It's an oxymoron. And yet I was here, wasn't I? Somehow I was bearing it.
— Paula Garner
Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one. — Jennifer L. Armentrout
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
— Paul Fussell
Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
— Jeremy Rifkin
Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!
— David Nicholls
And there's no figuring out the unknowable. And there's some kind of oxymoron in that that's more moron than anything else.
— Sarah Mussi
- activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms.""Oxymoron."
I flipped him a finger. "Same to you with knobs on. — J.L. Merrow
If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
— Gerald R. Ford
Fresh ideas from this group was virtually an oxymoron, Marlys thought, wriggling her butt against the comfortless chair.
— John Sandford
Delhi: This place is inself an oxymoron.
— Parul Wadhwa
It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.
— Elizabeth Cruickshank
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused.Fang tried to play innocent
but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson
Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.
— Peter F. Hamilton
The Term "a Criminal Lawyer" Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron
— Carsten Stroud
I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.
— Nouriel Roubini
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
— Ellen Goodman
Wearing: shorts + a jersey = a visual oxymoron.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
— Thom S. Rainer
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
— Judith Plaskow
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
— Gustave De Molinari
By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms.
— Timothy C.W. Blanning
Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this).
— Doug Saunders
Subtly but definitively? Isn't that an oxymoron, you moron?
— Lauren Gallagher
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
— Wilson Follett
The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron.
— Veronica Roth
That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus.
— Rachel Held Evans
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
— Hendrik Hertzberg
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.
— Elena Ferrante
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
— Pat Roberts
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
— Martha Plimpton
A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
— George Lois
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
— George Will
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
— Harold Bloom
Bad leadership is an oxymoron.
— Joseph C. Rost
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
— Mark Twain