All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a… — Matthew Polly Copy Share Image
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“Vanity, thy name is crow. Which is funny because c-r-o-w is also how you spell kleptomaniac.” — Hailey Edwards 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
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
“May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be… — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image