Amusing Quotes · Page 8

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Long story short: I don’t know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her…

— Anonymous

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

— Charlie Brooker

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I…

— Anonymous

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of…

— H. L. Mencken

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've…

— Duncan Roy

[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem.…

— Cassandra Clare

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone…

— Marlon Brando

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

— Leo Tolstoy

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring,…

— Rose Wynters

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.…

— Simone Weil

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is…

— Sherry Turkle

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

— Truman Capote

“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.”

— Edith Pargeter

“I think you've confused being enthralled with amusing yourself by irritating me.' 'Possibly,' he remarked. 'I do find pleasure in that.' He…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

— Sidney Poitier

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to…

— Paulo Coelho

“Sort of amusing it was—and gay—not like real swearing, 'cause he swore like an angel. (Quoting Katy Leary)”

— Franklin J. Meine

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for…

— Thomas Carlyle

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

— Karen Abbott

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side…

— Peter Ustinov

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do…

— Jimmie Johnson

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

— Rhianna Pratchett

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I always find it amusing to overhear women who have never had babies discussing what a pregnant chick should 'look' like at…

— Catt Sadler

“I was annoying her and found it pretty amusing. Girls didn’t usually treat me with unadulterated loathing, even when I was showing…

— Jamie McGuire

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon…

— George Will

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

— Israel Horovitz

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the…

— John Hill Burton

“A problem?” Dane asks in a hopeful voice. We all side-eye him. “What? Oh.” He clears his throat and lowers his voice…

— Rory Miles

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to…

— John Flanagan

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain…

— Bing Crosby

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

— Fabien Barthez