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Quotes About Amusement

Sometimes frivolity isn't a bad thing.
~ Richelle Mead
including one for the holders of the Fastpass.
~ Ridley Pearson
Life is more fun if you play games.
~ Roald Dahl
The rooster has a funny little paper hat over its head, like an ice-cream cone upside down, and my dad is pointing to it proudly and saying, 'Stroke him. Go on, stroke him. Do anything you like to him. He won't move an inch.' The rooster starts scratching
~ Roald Dahl
Hey, look at all those cheeky birds still up there on the roof! Let's
~ Roald Dahl
We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Solipsism, for heaven's sake! God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television—that makes just as much sense!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Well, at that point, the only thing to do is relax and enjoy the show.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.
~ Robert Coover
Humor. I am my own best audience. Meryl
~ Robert Crais
Oh yeah. We were all having fun now.
~ Kim Harrison
Puck laughed, and it wasn't like that weird high-pitched giggle she'd heard out of children before, the one that begged the question: why would one possibly tickle a child just to elicit that noise?
~ Kresley Cole
How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be so hard to vanquish." Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll take you out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure." She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal poker and make shadow animals.
~ Kresley Cole
You wanna know what I'm feeling? Lemme tell you, bébé. Amusement. You're acting like we got some kind of choice in this matter. You're just as screwed as I am—because we're both too far gone for the other.
~ Kresley Cole
Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd want me to make records for that awful phonograph. Haven't time to be a public benefactor, so I'll just sing you this little song for your own amusement.
~ L. Frank Baum
todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.
~ L. Frank Baum
Scraps thought it was odd that they could be so easily amused, but decided there could be little harm in people who laughed so merrily.
~ L. Frank Baum
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The gods too are fond of a joke.
~ Aristotle
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.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
~ Brigham Young
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
~ George Carlin
We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding satisfaction.
~ Yuval Noah Harari