Quotes about Amusement

Amusement to an observing mind is study. Votes: 5

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. Votes: 4

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. Votes: 4

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. Votes: 4

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Votes: 4

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. Votes: 4

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. Votes: 4

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. Votes: 4

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Votes: 4

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. Votes: 3

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. Votes: 3

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial. Votes: 3

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... Votes: 3

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. Votes: 3

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven. Votes: 3

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave Votes: 3

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. Votes: 3

You're not celibate, then? I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes.No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. Votes: 3

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time. Votes: 3

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. Votes: 3

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. Votes: 3

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. Votes: 3

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. Votes: 3

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Votes: 3

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Votes: 3

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. Votes: 3

Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. Votes: 3

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. Votes: 3

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement. Votes: 3

Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off. Votes: 3

The Amusement of every second is not a tolerable limit.But as it is, now it's all set on the highest limits of the sky.Mind Body Spirit,learn Transcend Teach. Votes: 3

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. Votes: 3

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Votes: 3

Amusement touched the corner of his lipsAnimals love me.Oh, I'm sure they do, Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, What farm animals don't love a wolf? Votes: 3

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be. Votes: 3

Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, "What farm animals don't love a wolf? Votes: 3

If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it. Votes: 3

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? Votes: 3

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. Votes: 3

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Votes: 1

I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks. Votes: 1

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. Votes: 1

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Votes: 1

Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement. Votes: 1

We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed. Votes: 1

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. Votes: 1

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. Votes: 1

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp. Votes: 1

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. Votes: 1

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. Votes: 1

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater. Votes: 1

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' Votes: 1

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. Votes: 1

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue. Votes: 1

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. Votes: 1

Encourage innocent amusement. Votes: 0

We live in God's amusement park. Votes: 0

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Votes: 0

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently. Votes: 0

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading. Votes: 0

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself Votes: 0

I do not cough for my own amusement. Votes: 0

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement. Votes: 0

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox. Votes: 0

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~ Votes: 0

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. Votes: 0

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. Votes: 0

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site. Votes: 0

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. Votes: 0

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. Votes: 0

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Votes: 0

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man... Votes: 0

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. Votes: 0

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves. Votes: 0

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. Votes: 0

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? Votes: 0

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. Votes: 0

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Votes: 0

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement. Votes: 0

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. Votes: 0

We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields Votes: 0

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes. Votes: 0

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. Votes: 0

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. Votes: 0

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England Votes: 0

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. Votes: 0

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. Votes: 0

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain. Votes: 0

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. Votes: 0

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park. Votes: 0

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things. Votes: 0

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. Votes: 0

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. Votes: 0

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. Votes: 0

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. Votes: 0

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. Votes: 0

Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks. Votes: 0

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement. Votes: 0

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters Votes: 0

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. Votes: 0

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. Votes: 0

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Votes: 0

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. Votes: 0

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. Votes: 0

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. Votes: 0

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. Votes: 0

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. Votes: 0

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment. Votes: 0

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. Votes: 0

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement. Votes: 0

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. Votes: 0

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. Votes: 0

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. Votes: 0

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. Votes: 0

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. Votes: 0

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium. Votes: 0

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. Votes: 0

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. Votes: 0

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. Votes: 0

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. Votes: 0

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. Votes: 0

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. Votes: 0

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. Votes: 0

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park. Votes: 0

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. Votes: 0

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person! Votes: 0

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. Votes: 0

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. Votes: 0

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy. Votes: 0

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries. Votes: 0

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years. Votes: 0

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor. Votes: 0

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, Votes: 0

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. Votes: 0

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats. Votes: 0

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace. Votes: 0

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for. Votes: 0

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy. Votes: 0

The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action Votes: 0

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle! Votes: 0

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Votes: 0

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. Votes: 0

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain. Votes: 0

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people. Votes: 0

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism! Votes: 0

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION. Votes: 0

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point. Votes: 0

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. Votes: 0

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters. Votes: 0

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses. Votes: 0

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself. Votes: 0

Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones Votes: 0

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. Votes: 0

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. Votes: 0

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought. Votes: 0

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. Votes: 0

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. Votes: 0

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. Votes: 0

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. Votes: 0

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business. Votes: 0

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes) Votes: 0

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write. Votes: 0

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture. Votes: 0

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. Votes: 0

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. Votes: 0

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. Votes: 0

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. Votes: 0

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher. Votes: 0

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Votes: 0

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement. Votes: 0

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well. Votes: 0

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement. Votes: 0

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. Votes: 0

Catherine bristled at the amusement in his voice. He could laugh all he wanted when he stood tied to a wall utterly naked. A little humiliation might do him good. Votes: 0

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them. Votes: 0

...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 they want to get to it. Votes: 0

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun. Votes: 0

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives. Votes: 0

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. Votes: 0

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest. Votes: 0

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement. Votes: 0

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat. Votes: 0

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated. Votes: 0

I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes. Votes: 0

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Votes: 0

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. Votes: 0

Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business. Votes: 0

I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement. Votes: 0

...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 here and this looks like being a loud one. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit. Votes: 0

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it. Votes: 0

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine. Votes: 0

How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here. Votes: 0

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Votes: 0

Kellan looked back at me, cocky amusement infused into his lopsided grinI'm glad you don't squeal when I look at you." He leaned in, his arm brushing mineI like having to earn it," he whispered." Votes: 0

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. Votes: 0

I've told you before," he said huskily. "I'll take you however I can get you." "Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom." His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement. Votes: 0

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. Votes: 0