Quotes About Amusement

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

Sleep tight, ya morons!

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks "because it makes other people less boring.

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

He laughs with wise, percolated mirth

all the boys had a contest to see who could spin around in circles the longest without throwing up.

Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

I just think it's so important to have fun because if you're having fun, then your viewers will have fun too.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

And that's when Honoré let loose. One great, long "Fuuuuck!" Even Rosa looked startled, but then ducks often did. "Ahh," said Reine-Marie and looked at the fire, while Armand raised his eyes to the ceiling, suddenly finding the plaster fascinating. Ruth hooted with delight, and Stephen said, "Attaboy, Ray-Ray. You tell 'em.

Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.

There is no doubt that a little difficulty and plenty of variety keep you young, or at any rate amused, which may be nearly the same thing. I sometimes wonder whether science will one day establish that we die of boredom.

The fact that Ben has a new riddle book, and wants to entertain us all by reading out every single joke, "Why did the duck cross the road?", "To give the chicken a break.

But I reckon we can manage somehow. The important thing to remember, after all, is that it's meant to be a fun house; that is, a place of amusement. If people really got lost or injured or too badly frightened in it, the owner'd go out of business. There'd even be lawsuits. No character in a work of fiction can make a speech this long without interruption or acknowledgment from the other characters.

Between Two Ages laid out Brzezinski's vision of what U.S. society would be like. The U.S. he wrote "is now in an information revolution based on amusement focus, spectator spectacles (saturation coverage by television of sporting events), which provide an opiate for an increasingly purposeless mass.

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused.

Blessed are they, that can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused.