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Quotes About Amusing

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.
~ Alison Brie
Yet another technique of the neglected positivist is to impose a new meaning on a word that exists but, through the convolutions of grammar, doesn't technically mean what you are deciding it means. The neglected positive of incriminate is criminate, which actually, technically means the same thing as incriminate—because the in- isn't really making a negative in this case—but it is much more amusing if you use it to mean the opposite.
~ E. Lockhart
He told an amusing story against himself about an incident on his journey home, a reminder that his thirst for recognition was redeemed by an endearing sense of the ridiculous.
~ Anthony Everitt
I've got a great sense of humor.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
~ Charles Baudelaire
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny.
~ Michael Jai White
Music for cartoons is sillier, funnier.
~ James Newton Howard
A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing.
~ Ronald Searle
Witnessing the misadventures of supposedly enlightened adepts and their devotees can be depressing. But it can also be amusing.
~ Sam Harris
He hikes up his trousers and squats, grinning to himself—both these Arabs find us amusing—and pours water from a green bottle over his toes
~ Saul Bellow
But you know you're sounding like a jealous wife? Are you jealous, luv? I find that rather amusing, all things considered." "Don't start laughing too soon, because I'm nothing of the sort." "No?" He was still grinning, prompting her to snap, "Your unexpected presence here smacks of jealousy as well, as in checking up on your wife, but you don't hear me accusing you of it." "I believe you just did.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
~ Desmond Tutu
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
~ William Hurlbut
There was a Young Lady of Bute, Who played on a silver-gilt flute; She played several jigs, To her uncle's white pigs, That amusing Young Lady of Bute.
~ Edward Lear
Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —
~ Elaine Sciolino
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
~ Arnold Bennett
The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
~ Leslie Nielsen
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
~ Israel Horovitz
I am a very funny guy.
~ Riyad Mahrez
I think I'm a funny guy.
~ J. D. Martinez
My favorite genre is comedy.
~ Kodi Smit-McPhee
People know I like to laugh and have a good time. Even when I'm sassy, it's still kind of stupid-silly.
~ Alyssa Edwards
This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
~ Ismail Merchant