Amusement Quotes

346 quotes by 268 authors

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
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
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. — Joey Adams
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
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
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
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. — Blaise Pascal
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
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. — Oliver Goldsmith
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst
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
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin

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