#irony

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#irony #mind

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#emphasize #i #idea #interested #irony

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

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#irony #know #listen #our #saturated

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

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#brings #deeper #friendly #insight #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