#irony

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#irony #horror

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#british #celebrity #fame #irony #romance

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humour #irony #show-business #wit #business

...had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#change

It's not necrophilia if she still has a pulse... ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#death

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid. ↗

— Barack Obama

#irony #irrelevant-nowadays #dreams

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog. ↗

— Holly Hood

#irony #sarcasm #funny

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44 ↗

— Michael Perry

#imagination

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash