Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
My life is a joke… I'm only here for your amusement… You'll never see the pain I feel or the tears I… — Storm Shadowheart Copy Share Image
Why do we teach kids that violence is not the answer and then have them read about wars in school that solved… — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Normal and I parted ways when Patch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic,… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny,"… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
![“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.” quote by Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/885/susan-sontag-332_amusement_t-o-read-was-precisely-to-enter-another_438392.jpg)
![“All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c9f/h-l-mencken-245_amusement_all-zoos-actually-offer-to-the-public-in_2331099.png)
