Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always…

“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…

— Richard Dawkins

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

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

— Brent Faiyaz

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming…

— Gregory Maguire

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I…

— Rowan Atkinson

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

— Emmett Tyrrell

It's amusing how arrogant people can be.

— Anonymous

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

— Gertrude Atherton

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

— Anonymous

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

It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the…

— Stephen D. Cox

Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to…

— John Flanagan

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

— Catt Sadler

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou