#irony

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#dorothy-swenson #irony #outsider #beauty

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#academy awards #anyway #awards #best #best picture

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#irony #horror

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