I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep....
Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
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.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
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.
Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
