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
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
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.' Lady Nora:… — Meredith Duran 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
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't go on dates because... I know people are gonna see me. But if I had to pick the best place… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere… We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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