Amusing Quotes
257 quotes by 222 authors
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I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted…
— J D Salinger
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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must…
— Cassandra Clare
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Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object -…
— James Herriot
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You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a…
— Neil Gaiman
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What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
— Lorrie Moore
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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too…
— Milan Kundera
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All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
— George R. R. Martin
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Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it,…
— Joseph Heller
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The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus…
— Michael Scott
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[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know…
— Cassandra Clare
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Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the…
— Joe Queenan
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Keep looking at me,†she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. “He’s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy…
— Tammara Webber
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If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
— Terry Pratchett
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Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every…
— Sylvia Day
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions…
— Howard Rheingold
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
— Caitlin Moran
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V.…
— Ben Stein
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
— Dick Cavett
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