To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V 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
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
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a… — David Storey Copy Share Image
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass 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
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — Aristotle 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
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
