#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

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'. ↗

— Mark Twain

#irony #wit #experience

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#history #irony #tourists #wars #win

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#book #childhood #comfort #death #drums

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #irony #regards #simple #simple truth

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#irony #joy #reflection #wisdom

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#because #business #come #crumble #decades

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