All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When I go to places, I love going to all those kind of amusement parks and kind of cheesy things to do. — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Life amuses me, Jasper. Until it don’t no more.” He grinned. “When you’re a happy guy, you find amusement in all kinds… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“Danny shook his head, amusement relaxing the tense line of his mouth. 'Is that all you think about?' 'No! Sometimes I think… — Louisa Edwards Copy Share Image
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“He has gotten very tired of everyone thinking the worst of him. He has decided to actively encourage them to do so.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber 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
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“When he was present she had no eyes for any one else. Every thing he did, was right. Every thing he said,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking,… — Nalini Singh 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
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
