“I think you've confused being enthralled with amusing yourself by irritating me.' 'Possibly,' he remarked. 'I do find pleasure in that.' He… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Sort of amusing it was—and gay—not like real swearing, 'cause he swore like an angel. (Quoting Katy Leary)” — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny… — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in… — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods… — Amanda Hesser Copy Share Image
Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George… — David Low Copy Share Image
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle,… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I hope I'm always appropriate on 'JR' if it's a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was… — John Landy Copy Share Image
I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go… — Brian Helgeland 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
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach otherwise. Even… — Harold Anthony Oaks Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and… — Isabel Briggs Myers 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
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
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