#irony

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#irony #mind

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ↗

— Bill Nye

#about #anything #does #everywhere #human

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

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

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

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

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#philosophy-of-life #life