I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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
“So, tell me about this guy. Did you meet him at work?" "Eww. You know I'm related to everyone in the restaurant.” — Ashleigh Stevens Copy Share Image
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it! — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing,… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
“You’re quite amusing when you’re not lashing me with that sharp tongue. Although” -his eyes turned sultry- “I might not mind the… — Elly Blake 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
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with… — Michael Scott 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
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“So Jason, in England, do you eat these ‘Farmer burgers?’” Wong Tong asked. “Farmer burgers? I don’t know what they are?” “Maybe… — Mark A. Cooper Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example - the Bermondsey… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my… — Isaac Asimov 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
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“his rather jolly nature, which seems to find many things of this world not only interesting but also amusing. Whatever” — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that. — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
When I play with my cat, whoknows whether she isn't amusing herself with me morethan I with her. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
