Quotes About Amusement

Gemma searched for a moment, then gave a laugh

She'd been busy all day, though she made time to stand over his shoulder plenty. However, he'd discovered the key to getting rid of her. Just a few personal questions, and she ran for cover. He smothered a grin. Might be kind of entertaining. The

Who, me?" Gary said, grinning.

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

We watch television and we play music, but mostly we've found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. They both let go, laughing. "Naw," Plight said," we just play board games.

I think, therefore I laugh.

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

appears at my side. "Yeah, we wouldn't want her bursting into flames," he whispers, and we both giggle quietly.

I silently chuckled at Cindy's characterization

At Playland, Eddie and the little boys had ridden potato sacks down long wooden slides, getting friction burns where a knee or an elbow dragged against the wood. The fun-house floor was pocked with holes through which loud blasts of air (fired by some hidden wiseacre) were meant to lift girls' skirts. Ingrid had a horror of these blasts, and she clung to Eddie, laughing.

Lincoln would remember this episode with amusement.20

And this is why you don't want me to be friends with Dee, because you were afraid that I'd find out the truth?" That, and you're a human. Humans are weak. They bring us nothing but trouble." My eyes narrowed. We aren't weak. And you're on our planet. How about a little respect, buddy." Amusement flickered in his emerald eyes. Point taken.

Personally, I find this turn of events delightful," Max declared. "But you look like a motherfaxing deer caught in motherfaxing headlights.

Oh God. I'm jealous of farts.

He had been amused, and sometimes stimulated, and once or twice rather attracted, but he had never been stirred as this honest, laughing Virginia girl had stirred him, with her level green gaze and her odd little dignity, and her sweet reposefulness which was just her breeding.

You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.

We could always blame the stars. I beg your pardon, Doctor? That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed. I pictured that, the celestial bodies trying to fly us like upside-down kites. Or perhaps just yanking on us for their obscure amusement

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Opal giggled. For someone, who never smiled, he had a delicious sense of humor.

So, Mo," said Loafers, chuckling as if that simple rhyme was the funniest joke he had ever made. (Sadly, it was.)