Amusement Quotes

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

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

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

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

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

Encourage innocent amusement.

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

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

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

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~

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

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

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

We live in God's amusement park.

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

I've told you before,” he said huskily. “I'll take you however I can get you.” “Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.” His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

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

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

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