Quotes About Amusement

What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

Sometimes joking is a relief from seriousness.

People don't always take us seriously," she continued. "People come to HorrorLand and think it's all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.

Really? Is he running for Worst Boyfriend Ever? In the subcategory of Completely Awesome.

This is the biggest damn iPod I've ever seen,' Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. 'Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.' 'The way you're feeding it, I'm not so sure. You think you picked enough songs?

and other, less important forms of merrymaking.

Something about him, it was true, did seem to make certain people angry. Certain women. He generally found it amusing.

I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide.

a smile in which malice tried to pass as friendly intent, in which amusement was in fact dripping venom.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. —James Thurber

You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.

Good humor has no age limit," I said, and she rolled her eyes.

between amusement and concern. I poked him unobtrusively, and

I thought he'd have an apoplexy on the spot," Grey said, lips twitching. "Likely wishes he had." Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite's face on this occasion. "Come, come," Lord John said, getting himself under control. "This will never do. Have you—

I want to be associated with good entertainment.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

I think comedy is something I enjoy, so it comes effortlessly.

I've always been energetic, loved life and have always been easily amused by things.

I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

I can entertain myself for hours.

I just want to entertain.

I want to entertain.