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Quotes About Amusement

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
~ Holly Hunter
Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
~ Rainn Wilson
They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.
~ Cleo Moore
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
~ Michael Jordan
Comedy is my soft spot.
~ Javed Jaffrey
The shopping centres that have come up in Noida are amazing. There are amusement parks and other good family outing spots.
~ Badshah
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
~ Charles Edward Montague
The very first time I went to Madison Square Garden, I went to see the circus.
~ Chris Mullin
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
~ Fred Frith
The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, 'I'm coming,' and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line.
~ Missy Elliott
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
~ Dale Carnegie
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
~ Bill Geist
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
For Thérèse, poetry was not "art for amusement," because she did not write for her own satisfaction but out of duty, or at least with a concern to serve, to help, and to encourage.6
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
Amusement always means putting things out of mind, forgetting suffering, even when it is on display. At its root is powerlessness.
~ Theodor Adorno et al
Network was just never the right fit with what I think is funny.
~ Jason Jones
My goal is to try new things, to make people forget their problems, make them laugh, and for them to talk about it the next day.
~ Charo
Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.
~ David Bryan