Quotes About Amusement

I traveled to Cuba with the intention of speaking with boxers who had turned down enormous offers to leave. When explaining my project to people, again and again I was met with amusement and skepticism.

I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

A great sense of humor is a great gift!

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

No one much seemed to comprehend the shapes he wore, but Ghost wore them anyway, because doing so amused him. Being a construct, "amusement" wasn't precisely the right term, but it was a close approximation for the exhilarating openness of the neural web, the crackle of new pathways and unexpected interconnections.

Although I have had offers of wireless installation for the Fram," he said in one rambling interview, "that also I declined. I don't care for it. It is very much better to be without news when you cannot be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good book we like, we explorers. That is our best amusement and our best time killer.

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!

But all seriousness aside

Did you ever hear someone say this: "It was more fun than a barrel of monkeys." Did you ever smell a barrel of monkeys?

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

You crack me up, little buddy.

Perhaps my existence was pointless in any grand scheme of things, but it kept me entertained.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I'm all about the slapstick, generally. If you fell off it, into it, or through it, I'm probably nearby wetting myself.

I find myself laughing at a lot of things, from slapstick to dark humor. I'm pretty much all over the place.