Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“My life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“at some point, your trip to the amusement park will end. And you’ll feel like an idiot if you spent the whole… — Jesse Tevelow Copy Share Image
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least… — Lynsay Sands 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
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No."… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians… Were it not for the churches,...… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes… — Oswald Spengler 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
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
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 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
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine… If we dramatize its life and conceive… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
