I keep myself amused and others confused

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

— Neil Gaiman

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

— Wil Wheaton

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found…

— Lucy Larcom

“From the corner of her eyes, Arima could see Leyla putting a hand over her mouth to muffle her giggles, and Myddrin had an…

— Stephanie Beerden

“You." I gasped. "Me," he agreed, amused.”

— Julie Berry

“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in front of…

— Tahereh Mafi

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I…

— Margaret Atwood

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

— Isaac Newton

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

— Bela Lugosi

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for…

— Maria Edgeworth