Amusement Quotes
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A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves. (Quote by - Gary Shapiro)
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. (Quote by - Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland)
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both. Californians don`t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times". Alex Kingston. (Quote by - Alex Kingston Quotes)
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. (Quote by - Thackeray )
Amusement - the happiness of those who cannot think. (Quote by - Pope Alexander)
Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character and becomes the task-master of idleness. (Quote by - Willmott Robert Eldgridge)
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave. (Quote by - Pascal Blaise)
Amusement to an observing mind is study. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Amusingly, Clooney said in an interview that Alger Hiss was probably .. was wrong about 99 percent of them. (Quote by - George Clooney)
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl. (Quote by - Robert Thompson)
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. (Quote by - Jean Houston)
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. (Quote by - Chamfort)
Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods. (Quote by - Frankie Boyle)
Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not enslave the mind. (Quote by - Garrick David)
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. (Quote by - Fuller )
Email to a friend Amusement to an observing mind is study. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi. (Quote by - Bela Lugosi Quotes)
Everyone likes to see the library staff pushing carts. It's always amusing. (Quote by - Andrew Pendergrass)
Everything that was happening that night was for the amusement of the guards. (Quote by - Chuck Neill)
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. (Quote by - David Mamet)
Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
He's not a stupid guy at all. He's intelligent and amusing and I have to say I'm surprised that he's having to [auction his trophies.] But he's living in Stockholm and in Sweden you get taxed out of existence so I suppose that may be the reason. (Quote by - Richard Evans)
I always find it amusing .. Compared to having your prostate removed? .. The only side effects are you feel better and it helps prevent heart disease. (Quote by - Dean Ornish)
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. Amanda Gunter. (Quote by - Amanda Gunter Quotes)
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice. (Quote by - Johnson Samuel)
I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough. (Quote by - Kate McEnroe)
I amused myself playing with the journalists. (Quote by - Brigitte Boisselier)
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. Alicia Dlugosh. (Quote by - Alicia Dlugosh Quotes)
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. Ana Guerriero. (Quote by - Ana Guerriero Quotes)
I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
I don`t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there`s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. Julia Roberts. (Quote by - Julia Roberts Quotes)
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage, but not so amusing as Broadway. (Quote by - Mae West)
I find it particularly amusing -- and frustrating on behalf of the pioneers who have been selling online for years -- that brick-and-mortar guys who announce the opening of their e-store see a huge one-day run-up. Of course, patience brings rewards, and most of those one-day wonders have returned to more normal prices. (Quote by - Kate Delhagen)
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. Harry Houdini. (Quote by - Harry Houdini Quotes)
I said, 'Fine.' I was amused by that 'Oh, by the way'. (Quote by - Len Cariou)
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. (Quote by - Cliff Fadiman)
I trust that those who do not find my epigrams amusing will at least find them offensive. (Quote by - Michel Paul Richard)
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. (Quote by - Elvis Costello)
I was amazed and amused. It's good publicity for the book. (Quote by - William Blum)
I was amused by it actually. (Quote by - Mike Keenan)
I wish I was like you, easily amused. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
I`d say where he is now he`s in a pretty amused state, and I hope he`d look down on it fondly with a smile. Everyone involved has tried to produce the book (Brando and Cammell) would have. David Thomson. (Quote by - David Thomson Quotes)
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. (Quote by - Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the Spring, and Youth. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself. (Quote by - Munger T)
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair. (Quote by - Hillary Clinton)
In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous. (Quote by - Joseph Hoffman)
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves, work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. (Quote by - Moore Hannah)
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either induties or meditation, without relaxation. (Quote by - Moore Hannah)
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. (Quote by - Vaughn Monroe)
It was more of a problem in the earlier shows. Gradually, they realized it was not original or amusing. (Quote by - Dave Foley)
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. (Quote by - James Thurber)
It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. (Quote by - James Thurber)
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job: it's a depression when you lose yours. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
It's awesome. It's like an amusement park. (Quote by - Aaron Lewis)
Joining in the amusements of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses, and even the slenderest bond that holds society together should rather be strengthened than snapt. (Quote by - Landor Walter )
Let the world have whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion. (Quote by - Burton )
Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown up people. (Quote by -LyndRobert)
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. (Quote by - Chamfort)
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
My parents are Irish, so there would be music, jokes, stories, tall tales and a musicality in it. We all tried to outdo each other, and my parents seemed to be reasonably amused by this. I don`t think they thought anybody would make a career out of it. Th... Colm Feore. (Quote by - Colm Feore Quotes)
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters (Quote by - not so much above the clatter as part of it. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan. (Quote by - Judith Regan Quotes)
Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper: part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble. In a world where the dead have returned to life, .. the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. (Quote by - Dennis Hopper)
Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world's oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only one thing - Gary Coleman is going to drown. (Quote by - Conan OBrien)
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Small things amuse small minds. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, .. How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable?. (Quote by - Richard Hamilton)
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. (Quote by - Jacques Chardonne)
The gods too are fond of a joke. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. (Quote by - Emerson, Ralph Waldo)
The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
The next thing they'll say if his trigger finger is broken, his tongue is still working. It's really amusing. (Quote by - James McIntyre)
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man... (Quote by - Walter J. Phillips)
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. (Quote by - Joshua Reynolds)
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
They're using him for a campaign, which I find amusing because he's obviously not there and that's the best they can come up with. I'd prefer Wendell to be focused on what we're doing and have spoken to him about letting Queensland do what they want to do. (Quote by - Ewen McKenzie)
This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level. (Quote by - Kris Reyes)
This was simply for the amusement of Pfc. England and the other soldiers. Pfc. England is actively involved in what is going on that night. (Quote by - Chuck Neill)
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. (Quote by - Addison, Joseph)
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. (Quote by - Charles Edward Montague)
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. (Quote by - James Atlas)
Toys that glorify violence encourage children to act out that violence -- violence which appears fun, cool and amusing,. (Quote by - Daphne White)
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. (Quote by - Humboldt )
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' . (Quote by - Ingmar Bergman)
What amuses me most about Skip is he often represents everyone in the deal, .. And, he does a really good job for everybody ? I've always walked away from every negotiation and thought, 'Jesus, how did he get that?' . (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water an inch deep and then the mud. (Quote by - Macdonald, George)
You live but once; you might as well be amusing. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. Giacomo Casanova. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova Quotes)
