#irony

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#fun #hard #irony #making #really

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #gets #hardly #irony #life

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. ↗

— Paul Horgan

#differentiates #does #irony #never

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. ↗

— George Saunders

#irony #just #up #volume

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #hunger #irony #majority #minority

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

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

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Lying on the metal table in front of me was a middle-aged man decked out in absolutely nothing at all. A dead man. Buck-ass naked with his little shriveled junk right there for everyone to see. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#age

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#philosophy-of-life #life