“Let the prisoner go. She’s not here for your amusement nor for your pleasure.” — Neel Kay Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement. — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew… — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement,… — John Green 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
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even." Finally he lost the grin.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“But I reckon we can manage somehow. The important thing to remember, after all, is that it’s meant to be a fun… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband… — Margery Fish 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
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
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Can't believe Google is cocky enough to start guessing after one letter. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?” — Marilyn Manson 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
“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image