#ironic

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.' ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#athlete #because #fell #heck #i

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#banjo #came #even #first #i

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. ↗

— John Fowles

#irony #men

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#always #days #get #hiss #ironic

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ↗

— Errol Morris

#condemned #futility #ironic #past #remember

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humorous-quotations #ironic #irony #death

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humorous #ironic #irony #funny

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! ↗

— Susan Kay

#funny #humor #ironic #irony #satire

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally. ↗

— James Jones

#witty #nature