Zitat des Tages über Sarkasmus / Sarcasm:
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.
I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.
I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
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.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.
Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
