And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
There's a good sarcasm and a camaraderie that comes after being in a band. And we've known each other forever. We've never been a band that fought or argued. As a songwriter, I'm really happy that the boys support me and contribute and that, but I've always wanted to be under the band Stereophonics.
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.
It wasn't sarcasm. " Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe. " Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.
I always get the better when I argue alone.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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.
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.