I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

— Dean Ambrose

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all…

— Danny McBride

It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After all, you…

— Lisa Kleypas

I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you…

— Jennifer Rardin

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with…

— Jim Jarmusch

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

— Blaise Pascal

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Bela Lugosi

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield