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Quotes About Amusement

we're way past the turnstiles at that theme park.
~ Tim Dorsey
There's some moments in your life where you're just like, 'I need something just funny.' That's the noble thing you can do. Make someone forget about their life for 22 minutes.
~ Jonathan Krisel
But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
~ Keith David
People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that.
~ Neal Brennan
Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.
~ Diane Morgan
There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
~ Walt Disney
I like the notion of theater as recreational.
~ Tom Stoppard
I'm a big Disneyland nut.
~ John Lasseter
Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.
~ Gervinho
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It's been a good living.
~ Michael Wolff
An old man in a tyrolean costume was shuffling among the rough tables with his hat outheld while a little girl in a smock cranked a barrel organ and a bear in a crinoline twirled strangely upon a board stage defined by a row of tallow candles that dripped and sputtered in their pools of grease.
~ Cormac McCarthy
A sense of humor is always a bonus. As with dinner companions, so it is with short stories.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
~ D.H. Lawrence
Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly, healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on, you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
~ D.H. Lawrence
Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?' 'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.
~ D.H. Lawrence
She had a curious, receptive mind, which found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk. She was clever in leading folk on to talk. She loved ideas, and was considered very intellectual. What she liked most of all was an argument on religion or philosophy or politics, with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
~ Walt Whitman
What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!
~ Charles M. Schulz
because casinos are really good at taking people's money and making them feel worse than they did when they walked in, they offer live entertainment to medicate the malaise. Or lessen the blow.
~ Charles Martin
A day without laughing is a day wasted.
~ Charlie Chaplin
He's also a dick,' said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile.
~ Charlie Higson
I wasn't drunk," Alynwick grumbled. "I tchin' for a fight, aye, but no' drunk." "Careful," Black said with some amusement, "your cultured English accent is giving way to your heathen Highland one.
~ Charlotte Featherstone