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Quotes About Amusement

Poked a juggling bear in the belly. Tried to toggle Tiny Tim's crutch sideways.
~ Chris Grabenstein
I had a nose tickle.
~ Chris Pine
Allan decided he needed a little recreation. Something light hearted and non-committal. A quickie.
~ Christa Faust
She'd left me her husband, who didn't expect much from me. He'd had his great love. And now he was willing, determined even, to be amused, to belly laugh at the slightest provocation, to appreciate heart-shaped pieces of toast as tokens of my affection.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her".
~ Helen Rappaport
Laughter has no greater foe than emotion…. To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.
~ Henri Bergson
The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
~ Henry Adams
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
~ Henry Tuckerman
The grate desire ov mi life iz tew amuze sumboddy. I had rather be able to set the multiplikashun table tew sum lively tune than tew hav ein the author ov it.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Laugh out-loud funny" by a "Master Storyteller".
~ Leslie Davis Guccione
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
~ letts tracy
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
~ lewes george henry
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
~ Lewis Carroll
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
~ Eric Bana
A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.
~ Ken Hakuta
A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.
~ Ken Hakuta
That's the thing about comedy, there's something utterly delightful and slightly pure about a really good joke, and to create one is a great pleasure.
~ Sean Lock
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
~ Harriet Van Horne
Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They're generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They tend to be rather useless items, too. They provide a few minutes of amusement.
~ Ken Hakuta
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
~ Carroll O'Connor
When the first reedy snore escaped the Mad Prophet's lips, Asandir's forbidding manner softened. His fingers smoothed black hair from a profile all too familiar, and his smile widened with amusement. 'So, our Prophet thinks you a servant, does he?
~ Janny Wurts
Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of the multiverse no end.
~ Jasper Fforde
Quién dijo aquello de: Un rey sin diversión es un hombre lleno de miserias?
~ Jean Giono