Adam Ross Quotes

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I'm forgetting about all my problems.'

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

Ironic things are interesting.

This is going to sound so boring, but I play golf in Hertfordshire at a club called Sandy Lodge just by Moor Park Tube station. It's where I unwind and don't think about anything else.

So we do nothing? --Claire We do the best nothing you've ever seen. --Michael

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.