Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My skateboard is magical and musical, it gives me wings and makes me dance in loops and whirls. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Why do we teach kids that violence is not the answer and then have them read about wars in school that solved… — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Good day to you, Sister," Gannon grunted, gritting his teeth and clenching the reins in a white-knuckled grip. "May you live to… — William D. Burt Copy Share Image
It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that hasn’t changed and he’s still about as exciting as a kiddie roller coaster.” And seeing as how Cat typically… — Christine Bell Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Normal and I parted ways when Patch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic,… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
![“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.” quote by Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/885/susan-sontag-332_amusement_t-o-read-was-precisely-to-enter-another_438392.jpg)
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