Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
Nathaniel Wing
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An alibi is only as good as its details.
KENNETH EADE Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ...
JANET BEIZER The defendant was setting up an alibi for himself.
BOB SLOMSKI There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement do...
ERIC HOFFER A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greetin...
JINCY WILLETT It would be a real failure if agreeing that it[abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alib...
ROWAN WILLIAMS Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH I have a fetish for damsels in distress.”
“Don’t be sexist.”
“Not at all. My ser...
CASSANDRA CLARE I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
JOHN GREEN It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt t...
ERIC DUBIN 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
LUIGINA SGARRO I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I...
JOHN GREEN I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
JOHN GREEN I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi
ANITA BROOKNER The historical irony is that a step that is basically within the discourse of the left is being carr...
SHLOMO AVINERI As far as problems are concerned, only problem he had was, he was not having any problem.
DR HITESH C SHETH If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in.
TORRIE WILSON An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet
JOSH STERN You have a transportation fetish.
I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.
SYLVIA DAY Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."
Then let's be quiet together.
LEONARD COHEN I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fri...
ADRIENNE BAILON A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.
MILOS ZEMAN I feel a repulsion for money. It's a f*****g fetish.
CHE GUAVARA All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing
JIMMY PAGE Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the...
ERIC HOFFER For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the win...
C. JOYBELL C. Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification f...
KAMILA SHAMSIE We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our m...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
BRIAN LAMB All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
LISA KLEYPAS I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
JIMMY PAGE War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of...
JOSEPH SOBRAN Dead is always a good alibi
SPENCER KOPE What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one's self? -Nathani...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is a...
DAVID GERGEN What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is a...
DAVID R. GERGEN But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.
ALEX GIBNEY She managed a smile. "You're kind of pushy, you know."
He shrugged. "I have a fetish for damsel...
CASSANDRA CLARE The mosaic is an extraordinary addition to the TV marketplace and serves as a platform for DISH Netw...
ERIC SAHL If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her hu...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going ...
ALBERT CAMUS Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
LIONEL TRILLING Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood
LIONEL TRILLING Self-concept," says Nathaniel Branden, "is destiny.
STEVE CHANDLER Life's irony;Death would have been an insignificant event,but for life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a clas...
MITCHELL ZUCKOFF It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are go...
ALBERT CAMUS The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental ...
MICHAEL MOORE People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
EMO PHILIPS Wow, three pairs of shoes! Someone had a fetish.
MARGE SIMPSON Forgive me. It was stupid of me to think you might need company, when clearly all you required was t...
MADELINE HUNTER I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. <...
JOHN GREEN I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian ...
LIEV SCHREIBER Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
MASON COOLEY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
MASON COOLEY Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist
PHILIPPE LEJEUNE The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
SIGMUND FREUD Reword and its an Innovation. Irony
TALEES RIZVI A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their ...
AL FRANKEN Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN They could almost be like a second family to her. They took her under their wing, treating her like ...
ALICIA BICKLEY Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
THOMAS PAINE Life's irony;When a great event showcases itself in an ordinary way,we humans then view it with our ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX Whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
DOROTHY BERRY Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of stat...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) It blew his alibi out of the water.
JAMES SENESCU People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alib...
EMO PHILIPS I'm hoping her death serves as a clarion call for people in this country to call for the rights of L...
CRAIG WASHINGTON Every online message encourages me and serves as new support for me to do better.
ZHANG HAO Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a libr...
ERIC IDLE I went and hung out at a foot fetish party, and I knew that was a very popular fetish to have, but I...
NIKKI GLASER We are trying to create more consequences for this very dangerous trend. We hope this serves as a de...
ADELE FASANO what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.
JANDY NELSON The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
LARRY FLYNT Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.
FRANK C. BUCARO I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.
COREY TAYLOR murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
LAURELL K. HAMILTON A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a sym...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ap...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to ap...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST Voldemort the corn snake with the shoe fetish. Wonderful.
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...
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appro...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you wi...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human l...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, withou...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF