Quotes About Amusement

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere

It would have been hilarious if I wasn't about to die. It was still a little hilarious.

The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh.

Natura se amuza citeodata formind combinatii caraghioase. Sint unii care-ntr-una casca ochii la nimicuri si rid ca papagalii in fata unui simplu cintaret din cimpoi; iar altii au o infatisare asa de posomorita, incit nici macar n-ar suride auzind o gluma buna. Nu s-a spus adesea ca, in fond, spiritul cel mai limitat este cel mai fericit?

He looked on them with the same amused detachment as Einstein, in the waning years of his life, must have felt watching children at play in a sandbox.

Tutti abbiamo il nostro momento d'oro. E dopo, è bello ricordarlo. Se fosse sempre il nostro momento d'oro non ce ne accorgeremmo neanche». «Quand'è stato il tuo momento d'oro?» mi chiede Mara. Ci penso un po' su e poi rispondo: «Una volta ho vinto un pesce rosso al Luna Park». Segue un rispettoso silenzio.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship'.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped.

We can always lace a sense of humor around anything.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

I liked the shorthand we seemed to fall into when nobody else was around, the easy intimacy that had sprung up between us. I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had expected. On

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know you shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned it to be so much more than he had expected.

had laughed for a full minute, trying to straighten his face when

he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a length of led piping, the trunk of a rogue elephant, a barrage balloon, an airport-sized Toblerone and a roll of wet wallpaper.