Amused Quotes

200 Amused quotes by 174 unique authors

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by… — Viola Spolin
Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked. — Beatrix Campbell
We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys… — Jeff Cooper
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were… — Saint Augustine
I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart--for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something… — Dorothy Draper
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from… — Alfred North Whitehead
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells… — Oswald Chambers
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony;… — George Mikes
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not… — Erma Bombeck
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the… — Henry Watson Fowler
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article. — James Blunt
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things,… — Hank Azaria
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as… — Bret Easton Ellis
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is… — Henry Adams
There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on… — Dave McKean
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's… — Black Francis
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react… — David Ignatius
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. — Nicolas Chamfort
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will… — Samuel Johnson
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What… — Judith Regan
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a… — James Laver
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both.… — Alex Kingston

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