“Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.” — A.P Copy Share Image
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato Copy Share Image
From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa 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
I don't go on dates because... I know people are gonna see me. But if I had to pick the best place… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
They say people falling in line for a ticket ride in an amusement park are insane. They wait for a few hours… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that… — Philip Yancey 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
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?”… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You must dream your life with great care. Instead of living it as merely an amusement.” — Arthur Cravan Copy Share Image
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I'm in Gods Amusement Park for the advancement of the Soul. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
