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| Oxymorons by Subject: General (271)
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| Oxymoron Quotes and Sayings: General (96) |
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- A blind man looks back into the future with the ear-splitting whispers of unconcealed ghosts thundering silently.
- A story told in silence.
- Ah, the good old times when we were so unhappy! - French Saying
- All generalizations are wrong, including this one.
- Always be on the lookout for the obvious.
- Always remember you're unique.. just like everyone else!
- Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really know what's going on.
- Australia is a pretty big continent.
- Bad becomes good when worse happens.
- Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Be here Now, when you can. - Ron McIntosh
- Be realistic: Go for the impossible! - Paulo Coelho
- Birthing a dawn to this endless night... - [from the song 'Lies' by Evanescence]
- Complexity is not so complex after all.
- Don't Forget To Remember Me! - Song by Carrie Underwood
- Drive slowly, we're in a hurry. - Winston Churchill to his chauffeur
- Easy things don't come easily.
- Everything is so random there must be a pattern.
- Excuse me? I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. - Fiyero Tiggular, Wicked musical
- Feels like the weight of the world... Like all my screaming has gone unheard... - [from the song 'Weight of the World' by Evanescence]
- For you time will always wait. - [from the song 'Hide' by Red]
- Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. - Samuel Goldwyn
- Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true. - Sir Boyle Roche
- He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder
- How could I have burned paradise? - song title
- I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol
- I am easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill
- I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- I came for leave.
- I can give you a definite perhaps. - Samuel Goldwyn
- I can resist everything but temptation. - Mark Twain
- I can't remember having a more memorable time.
- I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again.
- I didn't keep score, but it could have been twenty.
- I feel the numbness around.
- I hate cliches because "They're a dime a dozen".
- I never said most of the things I said. - Yogi Berra
- If there's one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance.
- I'm never Wrong!!! Once I thought I was wrong... but it turned out I was mistaken.
- I'm proud of my humility.
- I'm still not sure if I understand ambiguity.
- It is so disturbing... that it is beautiful.
- It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. - Opening sentence of the 'A Tale of Two Cities'
- It's eight o'clock, sir! - Why the devil didn't you tell me that before? - Overheard in hotel
- It's simply hard...
- It's wrong to be always right.
- Life is full of uncertainties ... or I could be wrong about that?
- Man was predestined to have free will.
- My answer is "Maybe", and that's final...
- Never say Never again! - [movie title]
- No one goes to that place anymore - it's always too crowded. - Yogi Berra
- Nobody goes to Miami in the Winter. It's too crowded. - Yogi Berra
- One fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men woke up to fight, back-to-back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another.
- One should never generalize.
- One step forward. Two steps backward.
- Perspective is in the eye of the beholder.
- Plan to be surprised. - ['Dan in Real Life' movie]
- Prejudiced people are all alike.
- Rebel without a cause. - (Movie Title)
- Remember the future. - Tagline for the movie "Paycheck"
- Reporter: You say you've never made a picture before? Samuel Goldwyn: Yes, but that's our strongest weak point. - Samuel Goldwyn
- Same old brand new excuse.
- Searching for the light under the sun!
- Simplicity is not a simple thing. - Charles Chaplin
- Some people say that I'm superficial, but that's just on the surface.
- Tell them to stand closer apart. - Samuel Goldwyn
- The beginning is always today. - Mary Wollstonecraft
- The clock is two minutes ahead and one hour behind.
- The future is now.
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. - George Bernard Shaw
- The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. - Wilson Follett
- The green bin is for non-recyclables.
- The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse.
- The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself. - Samuel Goldwyn
- The other day, I saw my cat barking while the sun was freezing me up.
- The Right way is the Wrong way and the Left way is the Right way. (Driving directions)
- The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once.
- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
- The world is full of apathy, but I don't care.
- There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali
- There's no such thing as non-existence.
- They say it's not as bad as they say it is.
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- Time won't give me time!
- To be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
- Walking but not moving... nowhere to go on this endless road...
- Walking up stairs gets me down.
- We are not retreating.. we are advancing in another direction.
- We must believe in free will. We have no choice. - Isaac B. Singer
- You always find something in the last place you look.
- You are one of God's mistakes... - [from the song 'Song to Say Goodbye' for Placebo]
- You're the dumbest smart person I've ever met. - from the movie 'I, Robot'
- You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. - W.S. Gilbert
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