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  • I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  • I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

    "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, edition.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.
  • A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

    "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.
  • I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  • Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

    Powerful   Party   July  
  • Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

    Funny   Humorous   Sleep  
    "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.
  • I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

    Funny   Witty   Book  
  • The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

    Dying   Dull   Scene  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The first condition of immortality is death.

  • For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

    Art   Decision   Stories  
    "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com. Summer 2012.
  • Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

    Editing   Long   Sound  
  • most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.

  • I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

    Funny   Witty   Years  
  • You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

    Lying   Play   Innocent  
  • Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.

    "The Education of a Libertarian" by Peter Thiel, www.cato-unbound.org. April 13, 2009.
  • It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

    Sorry   Home   Fighting  
  • A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

    Funny   Witty   Stupid  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

    William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series
  • A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • I never liked you, and I always will.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

    Men   History   Oxymoron  
  • Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

    Believe   Goal   Enabling  
    Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org
  • Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent. It's something that is objective, regardless of how you feel. So, the term gender identity seems to me to be something of an oxymoron. It's not really about one's identity. It's rather a matter of one's self-perception or one's feelings about oneself.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

    "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.
  • The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

    Party   Airplane   Actors  
  • I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

    "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.
  • Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 2009.
  • The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

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