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Quotes About Amused

Well, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.
~ Elvis Costello
I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused...
~ Elvis Costello
Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.
~ balzac honore de xxv
The waste of self and money amused his followers.
~ Barry Miles
I buy the stale popcorn, or at least try (because Bernie, in his words, won't have it) and we go through and sit down, near where I watched from yesterday. He's given us a ticket each. 'Coool Hand Luke: 7pm.' 'Has your cool got three Os?' Audrey enquires. I look down at it, amused. It has and it seems perfect for this night.
~ Markus Zusak
Her smile was suddenly brightly amused, reminding him of the girl he had once known and loved.
~ Mary Balogh
She raised her arms away from her sides and looked at me. She smiled in that sly, subversive way she had—teasing, but also amused, and inviting the recipient of the smile to join in the amusement. "You're not going to search me?
~ Barry Eisler
Our private lives are like a colony of worlds expanding, contracting, breathing universal air into separate knowledges. Or like several packs of cards shuffled together by an expert anonymous hand, and dealt out in a random, amused or even hostile way.
~ Gregory Maguire
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
~ Patricia Marx
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
~ Henry Adams
Hasn't anyone ever told you, Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, that a gentlemen never lays a hand on a lady? Which I thought was king of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him
~ Meg Cabot
Do you ever read the scriptures? Every day, I said enthusiastically, not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel. She smiled, amused. What a barbarian you are!
~ Bernard Cornwell
Some Gods are wicked, Derfel. And besides, they have no duty to us, only we to them. Maybe it amused them?
~ Bernard Cornwell
Francesca,' he murmured, making his voice smooth and personable, 'it is a delight to see you.' 'And you as well,' she replied. She smiled then, but it was in an amused sort of fashion, and he had the unexpected sense that she was mocking him. But there seemed little to be gained by pointing this out; it would only demonstrate how attuned he was to her every expression.
~ Julia Quinn
He sounded as if he might be amused by the notion if he were not so weary.
~ Sophie Hannah
In some African tribes, this would make us married, a dry male voice returned. Angel looked up. His arms reflexively gripping her waist, a tall, lean man with windswept black hair looked down at her with amused emerald eyes. In others, it would mean we're being prepared for supper
~ Suzanne Enoch
Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.
~ Tamora Pierce
On the back stair, poised and frankly amused, was a young gallant of medium height, sturdily built and fashionably clad, vividly handsome and girded with a sword. The sword, however, was sheathed in white vellum, the left hand was naked of rings, and the shoulder-length hair was the color of midnight. One step farther up stood a slender page-boy, with a tiger lily and a hyacinth tucked behind one translucent ear.
~ Tanith Lee
We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
~ Daniel Dennett
I was ten," I said. "Give me a little credit." "To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance." Abraham sounded amused. "You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I found the stack of letters on my desk when I got back. People really liked the idea of the trip; they found it romantic—and I think they were amused, learning where I was popping up from week to week—but I didn't know that while it was happening. Aside from other cyclists I encountered on the road occasionally and the people I interviewed along the way, I pedaled along in pretty much total isolation
~ Bruce Weber
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
~ James Blunt
Home, Ms. Lane?" His deep voice was gently amused. "I have to call it something," I said morosely. "They say home is where the heart is. I think mine's satin-lined and six feet under.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Yet peruse these stars overhead. They glisten with a youthful energy, nay, sparkle as if amused by the one who contemplates them. While the earth itself hints of vast blushes of red, orange and lavender.
~ Steven Erikson