"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste,……" — Henry Adams

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• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,… — P T Barnum
• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality — Grace Kelly
• I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does… — Noel Coward
• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato
• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion… — Samuel Johnson
• Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether… — H. M. Tomlinson
• American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the… — Katharine Whitehorn
• It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him.… — Tahereh Mafi
• I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure;… — Fernando Botero
• I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience… — Jim Broadbent

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