The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“I don't live to amuse you, you know." "One, are you sure? Because you do. And two, we don't make fun of… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics.… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can.… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“We'll put Mado on the joy wheel, and watch her being banged about a bit. Well, she ought to amuse us sometimes;… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-around-at-the-front-of-the-room-with-his-trousers-off' way, but probably with a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to… — Adrian Edmondson Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
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