#irony

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #biggest #creative #creative ways #enjoy

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#mob #thinking #love

I like the irony in my work. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#irony #like #work

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live ↗

— Mark Leidner

#pitchforks #sincerity #beauty

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bad #bad habits #character #comedy #fall

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#make #movies #rain #real #use

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#clap #extinguisher #irony #unhappily #upon

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#agility #chaos #clear #consciousness #eternal

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#good #great #irony #paradox #same

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #darker #even #father #humor