Amusement Quotations | Page 2

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

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

Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

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.

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

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.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

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.

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.

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 as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

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

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.

The Kemah Boardwalk draws 4 million visitors a year to this once-sleepy town on Galveston Bay near Houston. In addition to showcasing overpriced, tourist-oriented restaurants, the boardwalk also includes amusement rides, shops, an unpredictably programmed water-jet fountain (a definite kid favorite), and a surprisingly nice boutique hotel called the Boardwalk Inn.

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

All of a sudden I had the hottest amusement device of the decade. I went from not having any money to having a lot of money. I was getting' it on, boy. I thought I was a movie star.

The format of playing just one game a day makes this trip so much more attractive to our players' families. There's the beach, the various amusement parks and the weather. It's all good in San Diego.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

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.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

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.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

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

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

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

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

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.

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

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

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

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.

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.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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.

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

Encourage innocent amusement.

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.

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.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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.

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

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

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your 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.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

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.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

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

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