Amusement Quotes
346 quotes by 268 authors
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
— Honore de Balzac
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
— George Bancroft
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of…
— Nolan Bushnell
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger…
— Lewis Carroll
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
— Leonard Cohen
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
— Blaise Pascal
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
— Samuel Johnson
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively…
— Joseph Paxton
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
— Max Ernst
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
— John Ruskin
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