#irony

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#any #change #climate #climate change #combined

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #blessed #brilliant #debt #directions

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arts #being #country #declining #due

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#irony #layers #paradox #simple #surface

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life #loneliness #life

Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #page- #irony

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. ↗

— Rick Allen

#before #course #drums #i #interest