I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say,… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“I can't always tell when Baz is mocking me. He's got a cruel mouth. It looks like he's sneering even when he's… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact,… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
