Amused Quote by Elvis Costello Download Open image ““Well, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.”” — Elvis Costello ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amused Disgusted Disgusted Try Elvis-costello Humor Try Amused Used Disgusted
“I got offended when she laughed, because she was showing pleasure, but she was also showing displeasure—in all the previous moments where she hadn’t… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“That was laughter-a natural eruption of good humor that occurs when people are amused.” — Carla Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was part of his inhuman nature to laugh at things that weren’t funny, and stare grumpily when they were.” — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
“I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
“I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.” — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I rolled my eyes. I hated his smirks. Sigh. I loved his smirks.” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it.” — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
“I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic stunt that… — Dean Jones Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused, — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in front of… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image