Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a… — Marilyn Ross Copy Share Image
“Life amuses me, Jasper. Until it don’t no more.” He grinned. “When you’re a happy guy, you find amusement in all kinds… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
“Danny shook his head, amusement relaxing the tense line of his mouth. 'Is that all you think about?' 'No! Sometimes I think… — Louisa Edwards Copy Share Image
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I… — William D. Burt Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You're not celibate, then?" I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes. "No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“You're Oberon's blood." A cool note of amusement colored his voice. "Of course you can dance.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Life doesn't give me lemons anymore. Not after what happened last time. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image