27 Quotes on Amusement

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  Author: Queen Victoria

• One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

  Author: David Storey

• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

  Author: Logan Smith

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  Author: Otis Rush

• I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

  Author: John Reilly

• I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

  Author: Dolly Parton

• Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

  Author: Edmund Muskie

• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  Author: John Masefield

• I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

  Author: Frederick Marryat

• Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

  Author: David Mamet

• You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

  Author: George MacDonald

• Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

  Author: Beverly Jones

• We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

  Author: Gilbert Hernandez

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Author: Gary Francione

• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  Author: Alan Foster

• Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  Author: Max Ernst

• I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

  Author: Brian Eno

• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

  Author: Max Beckmann

• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

  Author: George Bancroft

• To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

  Author: Darren Aronofsky

• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

  Author: Joseph Addison

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