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Quotes About Amusement

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
~ Terry Pratchett
In fact no gods anywhere play chess. They haven't got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato
~ Terry Pratchett
And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
~ Todd Barry
Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.
~ Mike Wozniak
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
~ Craig Brown
I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
~ Jeff Dunham
I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.
~ Keri Russell
We love to make people laugh - it's just something we do.
~ James Murray
I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.
~ Stephen Baldwin
Everyone knows I love a good fart joke!
~ Channing Frye
Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black
~ Karen Marie Moning
I snicker at my joke. Dude, if ya can't crack yourself up, ain't never gonna crack anybody else up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
So"--he gestured impatiently--"when will you marry him?" "Who?" She seethed, plucking at the folds of her gown. Clouds passed over the moon, momentarily obscuring him from her view. His eerily disembodied voice was mildly reproaching. "Try to follow the conversation, lass. Quinn." "By Odin's shaft--" "Spear," he corrected with a hint of amusement in his voice.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They hold a secret smile and a certain amused resignation. As if he has watched humanity's idiocies play out in front of him so many times that they have begun to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not pain but perhaps perturb him. As if he wearies of watching the rats in the maze run into the same walls over and over.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Life is funny; it really is.
~ Karyn Bosnak
By the Lord of Hell's hairy balls!
~ Katharine Kerr
The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She had, he thought, one of the world's great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn't feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding there, and I was in love. At that age (or any age for that matter), our hearts are simple enough.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I reread an observation by Willa Cather with a mixture of amusement and startled recognition: "THERE ARE ONLY two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
~ Gail Sheehy
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus