{"quotes":[{"text":"I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.","author":"Demetri Martin","tags":["comedian","comedy","demetri-martin","fly","funny","humor","ironic","roommates"],"id":10217,"author_id":"Demetri+Martin"},{"text":"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.","author":"Tom Waits","tags":["ironic","music"],"id":21683,"author_id":"Tom+Waits"},{"text":"It takes strength to become weak!","author":"Evinda Lepins","tags":["change","ironic","ironic","recovery","recovery-inspiration","strength","transformation"],"id":24562,"author_id":"Evinda+Lepins"},{"text":"It takes strength to become weak!","author":"Evinda Lepins","tags":["change","ironic","ironic","recovery","recovery-inspiration","strength","transformation"],"id":24562,"author_id":"Evinda+Lepins"},{"text":"This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.","author":"Pooja Perumal","tags":["humans","ironic","self-destruction","world"],"id":29433,"author_id":"Pooja+Perumal"},{"text":"It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.","author":"Kayla Krantz","tags":["boredom","expecting","ironic","story","unexpected"],"id":37825,"author_id":"Kayla+Krantz"},{"text":"Your advice seems a little ironical.'Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.","author":"Thomas Henry Lister","tags":["advice","humor","ironic","ironical"],"id":44608,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Lister"},{"text":"Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?","author":"Andrew Clements","tags":["andrew","beautiful","clements","inspirational","ironic","life","oxemoron","paradox","wisdom"],"id":44621,"author_id":"Andrew+Clements"},{"text":"They thought more before nine a.M. Than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["bad-memories","broken-home","cherry-pie","childhood","childhood-memories","divorce","funny","iconoclast","ironic","irony","logic","memories","over-thinking","patriotism","psychologist","psychology","simplicity","symbolism","the-mind","thoughts"],"id":47006,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-necessities","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","epigram","epigrams","famine","fat","food","food-shortage","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","ironic","irony","made-me-think","make-you-think","malnutrition","maxim","maxims","nutrients","obese","obesity","overweight","paradox","paradoxical","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","puzzle","puzzling","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starvation","starve","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight"],"id":52275,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}