Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery,… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate… — Judith Regan Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No."… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable!… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks,… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“I would never treat you like a butterfly, like something I’ve captured for my own amusement. I’d never pin you to a… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement!… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?"… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Mr Biffen,’ wrote another, ‘seems not to understand that a work of art must before everything else afford amusement.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
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