(13 quotes found)
“The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.”
George F. Will
“Submarine in the desert. Yeah, an oxymoron if you ever had one.”
Clay Condit
“And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.”
Patricia Clarkson
“It was kind of an oxymoron, me passing him in my Mitsubishi Montero. That used to tickle me.”
Clint Hurdle
“welcome sexual harassment is an oxymoron.”
Richard Posner
“The principle of it seems almost like an oxymoron. Most agents don't like it.”
James Stack
“Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it looks like we will build trailer parks. This will be defining, in the sense that the neo-cons will end up saying government can do this. The real hero of these people is FDR. I don't happen to believe any of this will work. You can't rebuild New Orleans society.”
David Keene
“To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to remain dynamically competitive.”
Norman Mailer
“These are extraordinarily devoted moms. I know that sounds like an oxymoron because they killed their kids, but the bottom line is they see their kids almost as an extension of themselves, like an appendage. So it only makes sense (in the mother's mind) to kill the kids, because if you're getting rid of yourself, there's a reason to get rid of the kids as well.”
Cheryl Meyer
“It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,”
Germaine Greer
