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Quotes About Amuse

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
~ Vincent Price
Whatever its actual content and overt interest, every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, disturb, amuse, instruct—it may express every possible shade of emotion, and describe every conceivable kind of event, but there is only one thing that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being and for happening.
~ W. H. Auden
I do try to entertain.
~ Owen King
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
~ Vince Staples
My job is to entertain you, leave feeling better than when you got there, and try to give you more than you thought you were gonna get.
~ Sinbad
I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.
~ Penny Marshall
Actors have to entertain viewers, be it on TV or in movies.
~ Sharat Saxena
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
~ Dr. Seuss
Though he did not seem to want to leave the hills, he was known to amuse himself by collecting young girls and sucking the souls from them.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
~ Vaughn Monroe
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
~ Marguerite Gardiner
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
~ Mel Brooks
she walked into her bathroom, stripped, and entered the shower. The door opened a minute later to expose Riley standing there, beer in hand. Scraping damp strands of red off her face, she glared at him. "I don't remember giving you an invitation." "You said to amuse myself while you shower." A slow, slow, deliciously slow smile. It said gotcha
~ Nalini Singh
But I believe that since my life beganThe most I've had is justA talent to amuse.
~ Noel Coward
Whatever talents a person may possess to amuse and instruct others, be they ever so inconsiderable, he is yet bound to exert them: if his attempt be ineffectual, let the punishment of an unaccomplished purpose have been sufficient; let none trouble themselves to heap the dust of oblivion upon his efforts; the pile they raise will betray his grave which might otherwise have been unknown.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley