“He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — 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
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy 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
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how… — Bill Hicks 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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere… We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V 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
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
Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.” — John Green 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
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
My skateboard is magical and musical, it gives me wings and makes me dance in loops and whirls. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
It's cute the way you ignore the red squiggly line under all of your words. — Psyche_Zeroh 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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image