You are here: Quotes > Browse > Keywords > O > Oxymoron Quotes

Oxymoron Quotes


The term "serious actor" is kind of an oxymoron, isn`t it? (Like) "Republican party" (or) "airplane food".

- Johnny Depp

Over and over again I’ve been called a walking oxymoron. I do things that you wouldn’t associate with a good little Christian girl. People say I’m half-boy, half-girl. I love style and dressing up, but I’ve also got competitive testosterone and I’m incredibly stubborn. When I’m going for a jog and I come up behind a guy on his bike, I try to beat him, even if it kills me

- Evangeline Lilly

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

- Eliza Dushku

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

Just because we don`t know something or can`t, doesn`t mean it`s not naturally there. The world does not exist only in terms of things we know. There is a desire in popular Christianity for wanting to have faith grounded in some kind of certainty. That`s an oxymoron because than it`s not faith anymore.

- Jim Miller

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

- Amr Elnashai