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
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous… — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out… — George Carlin 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
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman 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
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
