...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even… — Edith Wharton 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 do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement… — Yolanda Adams 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
Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland 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
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image