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Quotes About Amused

If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.
~ Jill Connor Browne
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
~ Kate Christensen
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
~ Alice Sebold
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.
~ Alice Sebold
I can give you my word of honor. And pray what may be the value of that? inquired the amused Regent. Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
Gee, Jack," she said, amused. "You sure came around quickly." "I know," he said. "I'm a genius that way." "Mel must have really lit into you," she said. "That always increases my intelligence about tenfold." "I
~ Robyn Carr
Don't get sloppy, Marcie. If I had a freezer, I might shoot him." "You wouldn't!" He smiled at her. "I like venison. Don't you?" She thought about that chili Jack had given her, how it melted in her mouth. But she said, "Not that much!" And she whirled and went into the house, his amused laughter at her back. *
~ Robyn Carr
And when they found our shadows Grouped around the TV sets They ran down every lead They repeated every test They checked out all the data on their lists And then the alien anthropologists Admitted they were still perplexed But on eliminating every other reason For our sad demise They logged the only explanation left This species has amused itself to death
~ Roger Waters
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
~ John Barton
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. On either side the gutters ran with an infant chuckle and gurgle, baby streams being amused with themselves. The
~ Sheri S. Tepper
His tone was amused, silky-sweet, but Keith caught the worry under it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Kit's voice stayed level, amused, but there was a honeyed rasp in it that Will knew for sheerest hatred.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Hot breath surrounded her, fragrant of summer. The voice was tolerant and amused, maternal in its enormity
~ Elizabeth Bear
Many a time, in my political indifference, I was secretly amused to see him swinging between anti-semitism and his passion for nut cake.
~ August Kubizek
Interviewing Michael Jordan is like playing him one on one. If he respects you and especially your media platform and he's amused by your college try, he'll let you get off a shot or two. Then he'll go behind his back, give you a head fake and leave you wondering exactly what he meant by this and that.
~ Skip Bayless
How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.' 'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When he had been made the acting Consigliori, the other powerful Sicilian Families referred contemptuously to the Corleone Family as the "Irish gang." This had amused Hagen.
~ Mario Puzo
Her dismissive skill was subtle and brutal, sometimes no more than a thin smile, a watery upward look or an amused intake of breath, a scanning cauterizing instrument which rendered any endeavor puny or extravagantly indulgent . Her son was her prize victim.
~ John Osborne
Do you have a handkerchief?" she asked. "No," the prince said, looking amused. "I suppose you have servants who carry around that sort of thing in case you sneeze," she said. "You aren't carrying one either," he retorted. "I don't have room; my reticule is full of cheese." "I thought you had an interesting smell! Most ladies smell rather French.
~ Eloisa James
I used to be disgusted. Now, I'm just amused...
~ Elvis Costello
Oh, I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.
~ Elvis Costello