#ironic

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. ↗

— Philip Levine

#crummy #detroit #doing #fact #going

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#attention #ever #first #future #ironic

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#get #i #ironic #kind #real

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#fbi #go #i #into #ironically

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#barb #childhood #die #earliest #heart

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#empty #every #exercise #exercised #forget

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know? ↗

— Latrell Sprewell

#going #guy #guys #him #i

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