Quotes About Amusement

Butler glimlachte. Een haai die een blote kont ziet.

Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.

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I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have seen you amused." "You exaggerate." "Nay, my memory is clear because on each occasion you came within a hair's breadth of getting us both killed.

Knowing that you love me is not a source of amusement." Sebastian realized that his hands were shaking with the force of the emotion that was pouring through him. "It is my salvation

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

I must beg very serious persons not to read this. It is not written for them. It is not written for grave people who despise trifles and who always require to be instructed. I only venture to offer this to those who like to be entertained, and whose minds are both young and gay. Only those who are amused by innocent pleasures will read this to the end.

Is that all I am to you? A source of amusement?

I would come here, too. Who doesn't want a free ride? I want to ride in the carnival for free all day long and put my whole family on welfare.

The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were aware of our own abilities, we had become practiced at laughing more than other children in our social circle.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Janaan' is very much a romantic comedy. It's light, fluffy and doesn't pretend to be anything serious.

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Larry David just makes me laugh.

Larry David makes me laugh.

I delight in embarrassing somebody else.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.