Dexter Holland

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

American Musician

Christian Bale

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Welsh Actor

John C. Maxwell

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

American Clergyman

Wilbur Ross

China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic.

American Businessman

Steve Eisman

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.

Johnny Depp

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.

American Actor

Gail Sheehy

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

American Writer

Vermin Supreme

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.

American Artist

Sanam Saeed

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

Pakistani Actress

Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

American Critic

Oxymorons create a surprising effect by combining contradictory words, sparking thought and interest.

Creative Tension

Writers use oxymorons to add style and depth to writing, making descriptions more vivid.

Literary Flavor

People use oxymorons in everyday language without realizing, especially in colloquial expressions.

Common in Speech

 It definitely sounds like an oxymoron. How can biology, something natural, be synthetic? How can something artificial be alive? Synthetic biologists sort of poke holes in that boundary that we draw between what is natural and what's technological. And every year, iGEM students from all over the world

What happens when...

 It sounds like an oxymoron. But when we were looking at the case sheets, what we found was, these people with the paralyzed phantom limbs, the original arm was paralyzed because of the peripheral nerve injury. The actual nerve supplying the arm was severed, was cut, by say, a motorcycle accident.

3 clues to understanding...

 We would have sped up our actions right away, because, look, that's happened with every new disease that's come into the country. So it seems like a lot of this goes back to that potential -- it's not an oxymoron, public health is everybody's job, and we need to adopt that.

The secret weapon...

 What's interesting about it is not the shape. What's interesting about it is how it's made. How it's made. A brand-new way to put buildings together, something called mass customization. No, it is not an oxymoron. What makes the building expensive, in the traditional sense,

Reed Kroloff:...

 And he's been a mentor and my boss, and he's actually an inspiration behind a lot of this in the speech. And he told me that we were going to pass bipartisan criminal justice reform, and I laughed because I thought that was an oxymoron. I was in the streets --

The radical act of...

 intrigued by this idea of Apocalypse I think it deals with all of the uncertainties about life if you think about the apocalypse and if you have a perspective or or path to it there's probably a little bit of peace that you get it seems almost oxymoronic that

Apocalypse PIPE A Pastor, A...

 That sounds like an oxymoron at best and dangerous at worst." How can something biological, which is based on nature, also be synthetic, which implies not natural at all? Well, synthetic biology is the engineering of nature to benefit society.

How synthetic biology...

 However there is a political battle in our country. And the coal industries and the oil industries spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year promoting clean coal, which is an oxymoron. That image reminded me of something.

Al Gore: Alarming new...

 you satisfy new housing demands and you make the existing neighborhoods all around it more complex, more interesting, more walkable. Here's another kind of China, high-density sprawl, what you think of as an oxymoron,

7 principles for...

 Okay. So The full videos are online if you are interested. I got a split reaction to that during the live performance, because there is some people who understand live subtitles are a kind of an oxymoron,