100+ Amusement Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Jen Lancaster (2010). “My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Amusement, Sometimes

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

- John Diamond

topic: Healing, Energy, Amusement

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

- Jonathan Carroll

topic: Years, House, Amusement, Amusement Parks

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Flower, Amusement, Corn

Encourage innocent amusement.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Amusement, Innocent

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

- Joseph Paxton

source: Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

topic: Vegetables, Interesting, Amusement, Botany, Department

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.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Pieces, Amusement, Kind, Couture

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

- Karl Rove

topic: Looks, Amusement, Towns

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

- Kathleen Winsor

topic: Amusement, Adultery, Crime

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Love, Friendly, Amusement

Callan took a deep breath. â€œI never expected you.â€ He shook his head with an edge of amusement. â€œYou are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.â€ â€œNaw, just a determined woman.â€ She grinned against his shoulder. â€œI know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

- Lora Leigh

topic: Amusement, Determined, Good Things

Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep.

- Lynsay Sands

topic: Sleep, Bed, Amusement

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

- Madame Roland

topic: Mind, Amusement, Killing, Fondness

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

- Margaret Deland

topic: Gossip, Amusement, Insult

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

- Mark Twain

topic: Writing, Benefits, Amusement

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

- Max Ernst

topic: Reality, Discovery, Amusement

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Grief, Order, Amusement

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: College, Games, Amusement, Amusement Parks

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.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Games, Amusement, Nonsense

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

- Petrarch

topic: Art, Amusement, Physicians

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Art, Believe, Amusement, Dabbling

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Queen Victoria

topic: Love, Marriage, Amusement

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

- R. B. Braithwaite

topic: Years, Amusement, Fifty, Theoretical, Modern History

I've told you before,â€ he said huskily. â€œI'll take you however I can get you.â€ â€œWhatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.â€ His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.

- Sylvia Day

topic: Thinking, Amusement, Mouths

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

- Tammin Sursok

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Parks, Amusement, Adventurous, Amusement Parks

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Book, Use, Amusement

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

- Vanna Bonta

topic: Barbie, Dolls, Amusement, Barbie Dolls

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

- Walt Disney

topic: Dirty, Wife, Amusement, Amusement Parks, Disneyland

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

- Walt Disney

topic: Amusement, Parks, Fans, Amusement Parks, Great Fans

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

- Will Self

topic: Age, Amusement, Parks, Amusement Parks

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

- William Howard Taft

topic: Baseball, Games, Amusement

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Amusement, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~

- Yunho

topic: Amusement, Invisible

All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

topic: Christian, Amusement, Danger

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

- David Storey

topic: Football, People, Amusement

I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea.

- Drake Bell

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Nice, Ideas, Amusement, Hmm, Dinner And A Movie

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.

- Thornton T. Munger

topic: Principles, Amusement, May

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

topic: Art, Amusement, Matter

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.81, 1909.

topic: Stress, World, Amusement

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Bores You, Ease, Amusement

It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After all, you can’t allow me to go around like this all day.” “From what I’ve learned so far, this is your natural condition,” came her pert reply.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Voice, Amusement, I've Learned

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

topic: Class, Amusement, Care, Lower Class

Callan took a deep breath. “I never expected you.” He shook his head with an edge of amusement. “You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.” “Naw, just a determined woman.” She grinned against his shoulder. “I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

- Lora Leigh

topic: Amusement, Determined, Good Things, Jacking Off, Determined Woman

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Giving, Age, Amusement, Giving In, Deafness

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

- Jerry Doyle

topic: Two, Amusement, Body, Amusement Parks, Body Is A Temple

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Amusement

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

- Lydia M. Child

source: "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia M. Child, 1843.

topic: Theatre, Amusement, Hours

Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Glasses, Looks, Amusement, Progeny, Binoculars

I've told you before,” he said huskily. “I'll take you however I can get you.” “Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.” His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.

- Sylvia Day

source: Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.201, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Unapologetic, Amusement, Toppings

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

- Plato

source: Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.32, University Press of America

topic: Education, Plato, Amusement, Homeschooling, Early Education

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Would Be, Amusement, Tolerable

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

topic: Weekend, Amusement, Sometimes, Raccoons

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

- Terry Crews

source: "Not My Job: We Ask Football And Old Spice Star Terry Crews About Cruises". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 5, 2014.

topic: Scary, Amusement, Parks, Amusement Parks

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Trying, Amusement, Life Is

Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.

- Rachel Vincent

source: FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Sep 11, 2012

topic: Amusement, Mouths, Doe, Reaper

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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Love Life, Giving, Amusement

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

topic: Amusement

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, William Keeney Bixby, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1916). “Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby”

topic: Amusement

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Death, Dying, Amusement

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

- John Green

source: John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

topic: Amusement, Good Things, Mutual

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Long, Amusement, Amused

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

- John Lydon

topic: Music, Rotten, Amusement

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

- David Mamet

topic: Drama, Amusement, Film, Carnivals

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

- Mary Baker Eddy

source: Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Intellectual, Amusement, Demand, Commercialism

I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

- David O. McKay

topic: Home, Wish, Amusement

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

topic: Hands, Whales, Amusement, Fling, Seamen

A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there just for amusement's sake that actually are not funny. My favorite part of the process is seeing it with an audience. I do about eight previews to see how things are working.

- Judd Apatow

source: Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 18, 2012.

topic: Eight, Would Be, Amusement, Losing Things, Preview

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

- Michael Crichton

source: "Why Speculate" by Michael Crichton, April 26, 2002.

topic: Errors, Stories, Amusement, International Affairs, Exasperation

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

- Robert Penn Warren

source: "Newsweek" Magazine, August 25, 1980.

topic: Two, Amusement, Easy, Inexpensive

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.15

topic: Games, Despair, Amusement, Quiet Desperation, Concealed

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (1850). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey”, p.235

topic: Amusement, Want, Quiet

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

- Walter Scott

source: Sir Walter Scott (1841). “Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffman. The omen. Hajji Baba in England. Tales of my landlord Thornton's Sporting tour. Two cookery books. Johnes' translation of Froissart. Miseries of human life. Carr's Caledonian sketches. Lady Suffolk's correspondence. Kirkton's Church history. Life and works of John Home. The Culloden papers. Pepys' Memoirs”, p.54

topic: Purpose, Amusement, May

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

topic: Race, Mind, Amusement, Anglo Saxon

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

- Will Rogers

topic: Government, Amusement, Investigation

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

- Will Rogers

source: Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

topic: Political, Amusement, Politics

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.