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Quotes About Amusement

Proper stupidity is fascinating.
~ Ricky Gervais
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.
~ Phoebe Robinson
I love comedies, both broad and subtle.
~ Michaela Watkins
We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.
~ Renzo Rosso
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
~ Unknown
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
~ Unknown
I said that I had never experienced a love-pinch and on a wave of amusement Kiser said, "Then you got that to look forward to. I don't know, though. That Yancey fella don't look very playful to me and Gaither's not a very forward boy so maybe you'll just have to skip that part of your life.
~ Unknown
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
~ Vera Nazarian
One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.
~ David Levithan
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
~ Bertolt Brecht
That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.
~ Michael Jackson
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
~ Nolan Bushnell
I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
~ Anjelica Huston
Cars and bumper cars are two very different things. NEVER sleep in a bumper car.
~ Craig Benzine
We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.
~ Ringo Starr
She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.
~ Peter Straub
You have the most infernal habit when anyone says the simplest thing to you, of letting your lower jaw drop and looking like a half-witted sheep staring over a fence.
~ Unknown
He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.
~ Philip K. Dick
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
~ David Foster Wallace
Sometimes, when you run through all of the questions, you have an answer while other times you end up with nothing to show for your effort but the ticklish amusement of flexing your brain.
~ David Gustafson
he and Cease were united by karmic connections so essential to our mutual inner balance that the endless differences of our minds are a constant amusement to us both
~ David James Duncan
Artisans prefer not to get too serious about things, and will try to keep everyone smiling — to keep the party going — as long as possible.
~ Unknown
I'm sorry, he says. I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.
~ David Levithan