Quotes About Amusement

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

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.

he had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intimacy which her proposal implied.

The provocation in her eyes increased his amusement—he had not supposed she would waste her powder on such small game; but perhaps she was only keeping her hand in; or perhaps a girl of her type had no conversation but of the personal kind. At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.

His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement. (The Triumph Of The Night)

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.

It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.

Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

He was amused by their 'ass stories' ( histoires de cul ) told over morning coffee at noon about their exploits the night before.

That's not funny or cute!

Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am…well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

I think we all love to watch something we know is going to go catastrophically wrong - the old banana skin syndrome, which is particular to the British sense of humour.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

I like watching comedy shows. I only watch comedy or action.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

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.

We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk into a store with surveillance and start dancing and waving at themselves.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

I'm just happy to play the game.

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.