Amuses Quotes
40 quotes by 36 authors
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
— Oscar Wilde
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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find…
— Anna Quindlen
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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It…
— Markus Zusak
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...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch…
— Toni Morrison
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
— Jane Austen
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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then,…
— Richelle Mead
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Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles…
— Cassandra Clare
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unrequitted love amuses me
— Cassandra Clare
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I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
— Noel Coward
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...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits,…
— Ryukishi07
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Racing amuses me.
— Enzo Ferrari
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
— Ted Danson
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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when…
— Mary MacLane
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be…
— Plato
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters,…
— Karla Kamylle Piscano
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