#rca

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#dying #garden #humor #irony #sarcasm

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. ↗

— Ford Frick

#insist #last #sarcasm #word

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#changes #come #every #folded #got

I can be very dry and sarcastic. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#i #i can #sarcastic #very

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cured #honesty #humility #only #person

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#funny-quotes #gatsby #love #sarcasm #tom

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. ↗

— Karl Marx

#another man #carcass #during #everything #hour

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#comedy #inescapable #laugh #often #realization

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions? ↗

— L.J. Smith

#sarcasm #funny