The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of… — H. L. Mencken 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
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing. — Sydney Biddle Barrows Copy Share Image
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at… — Robert McCracken 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
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news.… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Being high is like being a little kid again everything is so amusing but you don't really know why, and you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry 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
“Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist’s chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato 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
Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side… — Peter Ustinov 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
You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to… — John Flanagan 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 was annoying her and found it pretty amusing. Girls didn’t usually treat me with unadulterated loathing, even when I was showing… — Jamie McGuire 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
I always find it amusing to overhear women who have never had babies discussing what a pregnant chick should 'look' like at… — Catt Sadler Copy Share Image
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing. — Rhianna Pratchett 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