Amusement Quotes

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

Woman, Old, Prayer

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

Live, Happen, Door

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

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

Lost, Moment, Pleasure

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

Live, Deep, Water

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

Life, Great, Learning

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

Love, Friendly, Touch

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Friends, Read

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.
Brian Eno

Good, Technology, Fun

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

Drama, Films, Original

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

Art, Play, Creative

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Hard, Destiny, Learned

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

Time, Reality, Either

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

Marriage, Sad, Act

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
Carrie Underwood

Love, Game, Football

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
Sloane Crosley

Christmas, Different, Same

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove

Often, Seen, Existence

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
Wallace Shawn

Down, Different, Around

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

Truth, Enough, Lives

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

Death, Single, Minds

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.
Darren Aronofsky

Good, Fear, Making

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
Armistead Maupin

Writing, Jokes, Readers

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.
Lewis Tappan

Great, Men, Show

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.
Danny McBride

Job, Place, Once

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

Character, Someone, Book

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?
Bruce Sterling

Great, After, Idea

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
Roman Coppola

Love, Work, Design

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.
Gilbert Hernandez

Started, Stories, Liked

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.
Beverly Jones

Fake, Thinking, Dog

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
Keith Olbermann

Business, Worry, Against

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