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Quotes About Amusement

What do you call a rifle with three barrels? A trifle.
~ Joseph Rosenbloom
Panicked, she dropped the suitcase and started edging away. In her haste she caught the backs of her knees on the arm of the sofa, lost her balance and landed flat on her back on the cushions. His eyes gleaming with amusement, Nick looked at the delectable beauty sprawled invitingly across the sofa. I'm flattered,honey, but I'd like something to eat first.What are you serving-besides baked shoes?
~ Judith McNaught
Lauren was still studying the mobile line of his lips when they quirked suddenly, as if amusement was lurking tere.Her gaze shot up, and to her utter horror she discovered that his gray eyes had shifted to her. Lauren was torn between laughing at his dry observation and blushing because she hadn't fooled him in the least. She did neither, and instead carefully kept her eyes on the elevator doors until they opened on the eightieth floor.
~ Judith McNaught
He waited until she was standing directly across his desk from him before he said quietly, You've chosen a poor time to apologize,Lauren. I have to leave for a luncheon appointment in five minutes. Lauren almost choked on his outrageous presumption that she owed him an apology,but she merely favored him with an amused smile. I hate to bruise your ego, but I didn't come up here to apologize.
~ Judith McNaught
Alexander Pope said that amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
~ Judith McNaught
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
~ Wallace Shawn
Across the intersection he could see the crumbling blue-green facade of the Palace Amusements building, the grinning ten-foot-high face on its north wall smiling out on empty streets and vacant lots. The arcade entrances were covered with plywood; broken neon tubing hung from the walls. He thought of the hours he had spent there as a kid, playing pinball, firing the real .22s in the shooting gallery, riding the bumper cars. It hurt to look at it now.
~ Wallace Stroby
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
~ Walt Disney
Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement... anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation.
~ Walter Abish
Qué es mejor? Sin duda, la luminosidad del humor, la carcajada, así sea improcedente a veces (nunca ofensiva).
~ Walter Riso
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused
~ Wil Wheaton
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
~ Wilberforce, William
The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But
~ Daniel P. Mannix
Adults love to ask children idiotic questions so that we can chuckle when they give us idiotic answers.
~ Daniel Todd Gilbert
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
~ Dashiell Hammett
I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.
~ Dave Attell
just as a novelty flying disc is commonly known as a Frisbee),
~ David A. Karp
Cartoon Network dot com, the shows are stupid, but at least they're entertaining and keep her calm.
~ David Archer
Big Pants by Hugh Jass!" Dionna laughed more. "And you asked for Fifty Yards to the Toilet by Willy Makit!
~ David Baddiel
Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.
~ James Boswell
This place is all fun and games.
~ James Dashner
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
~ James Herriot
People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.
~ James Kennedy
I find the humor in life, and laugh easily
~ Doreen Virtue