Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott
I do not cough for my own amusement. — Jane Austen
Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No,… — Mira Grant
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee… — Milan Kundera
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his… — Virginia Woolf
Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung… — Cassandra Clare
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement… — Barbara Mertz
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the… — Jim Butcher
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they… — Philip Roth
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… — Virginia Woolf
Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s… — Lisa Kleypas
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular.… — Cassandra Clare
‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat… — Thomas Jefferson
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. — Erich Maria Remarque
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features,… — Cassandra Clare
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd… — Karen Marie Moning
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that?… — Jeaniene Frost
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and… — Chelsea Handler
If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain. — Christine Feehan
...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than… — Edith Wharton

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