Quotes Tagged "sarcasm"

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?

Самое плохое, что родитель может сделать для ребенка — сразу после издевательств и халатного отношения к безопасности — это сначала запрещать, а потом разрешать одну и ту же вещь. Потому что из ребенка вырастет гребаный менеджер по продажам: он поймет, что если брать людей измором, то для тебя сделают все, лишь бы ты отстал. И да, может это и принесет ему богатство, но дорогого ли это стоит, когда у тебя, такого богатого и успешного, нет друзей? А друзей нет, потому что от тебя все шарахаются в страхе, что ты начнешь предлагать щетку и вибратор в одном флаконе или средство для потенции на основе отстриженной в полночь шерсти с яичек быка-производителя.

I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating yourself than in German.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time - and brash.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.