Quotes of: Amusement Keyword

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.

David Storey

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

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.

John C. Reilly

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

J.K. Rowling

The Amusement of every second is not a tolerable limit.But as it is, now it's all set on the highest limits of the sky.Mind Body Spirit,learn Transcend Teach.

J.T.Abraham

Algren: My thanks, on behalf of those who died in the name of better mechanical amusements and commercial opportunities.

The Last Samurai

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

David Low

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

Edmund White

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Evelyn Underhill

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

Life

Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

Church of Marvels

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

City of Ashes

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at a...

Bryan Batt

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

Jim C. Hines

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Oh, that's the pot calling the kettle black. Amusement flowed through the connection as Seth said, Or it's the pot calling the pot a pot.

Apollyon

Seattle? With Caine? In a hotel? I’d either kill him or screw him again. “Fuck.” “Alexa, the speakerphone is on,” Caine’s amused voice sounded from my desk. Oh, balls.

Hero

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

The Master and Margarita

I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.

No Longer Human