They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“What the hell?” Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet,… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
“Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she… — Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Copy Share Image
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar. — M. Ward Copy Share Image
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I find it amusing that it's the people who know me the least are ones who judge me the most. — Kenny Janssen Copy Share Image
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
“A problem?” Dane asks in a hopeful voice. We all side-eye him. “What? Oh.” He clears his throat and lowers his voice… — Rory Miles Copy Share Image
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the… — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon… — George Will Copy Share Image
Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do… — Jimmie Johnson Copy Share Image
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“As soon as the door closed, Uncle Enzo looked around. "I say he needs money." Uncle Nico shook his head. "He's been… — Ashleigh Stevens Copy Share Image
Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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