The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Ha ha ha ha! Tee-hee-hee! Mwa-ha mwa-ha! Kee kee kee! Ho ho ho ho! Haw-hee-haw! Heh heh heh heh! Gah guffaw! Hoo… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
I feel like they would just be the funnest people. I wish I could have been friends with Michael Jackson, just because… — Thomston 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
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration.… — Sloane Crosley 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
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. — Will Rogers 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
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield 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
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
