I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,'… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I hate amusement arcades. When I was a little wheelie on holiday with my family in Wales, this was one of our… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Callan took a deep breath. “I never expected you.” He shook his head with an edge of amusement. “You are a dangerous… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Why did the warrior cross the road? [Koldo] That’s easy. To kill the guy on the other side. [Nicola] A bud of… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night,… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me… — Otis Rush Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you… — Savannah Guthrie Copy Share Image
A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy for going far sexually… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me,… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
![“Why did the warrior cross the road? [Koldo] That’s easy. To kill the guy on the other side. [Nicola] A bud of amusement had her smiling. Knock, knock. [Koldo] Who’s there? [Nicola] Donut. Donut who? Donut run from me, puny girl.” quote by Gena Showalter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/798/gena-showalter-541_amusement_why-did-the-warrior-cross-the-road-koldo_1275451.jpg)
