Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?”… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“But I reckon we can manage somehow. The important thing to remember, after all, is that it’s meant to be a fun… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even." Finally he lost the grin.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Ha ha ha ha! Tee-hee-hee! Mwa-ha mwa-ha! Kee kee kee! Ho ho ho ho! Haw-hee-haw! Heh heh heh heh! Gah guffaw! Hoo… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I've traveled all over the world for the Institute, but I never dreamed I'd meet someone like you." "Strong?" A chuckle escaped… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They say people falling in line for a ticket ride in an amusement park are insane. They wait for a few hours… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image