Amusing Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Amusing". There are currently 313 quotes in our collection about Amusing. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Amusing!
The best sayings about Amusing that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3675, Delphi Classics
  • I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

    Song   Teenager   Cutting  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

    E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press
  • The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

  • Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

    Pain   Circles   People  
    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.

  • I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.8, Vintage
  • If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

    Children   Spring   Pride  
    Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.86, Penguin UK
  • My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad to think that such archaic and potentially dangerous censorious beliefs still exist, and amused because these censors only make a book more powerful and seductive when trying to ban it.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll takeyou out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure."She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal pokerand make shadow animals.

    Animal   Cells   Pet  
    Kresley Cole (2012). “The Brothers Wroth: Warlord Wants Forever, No Rest for the Wicked, Dark Needs at Night's Edge, Untouchable”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I was a small child. Although it's often quite amusing, it's exhausting at times to live with myself, and when I'm tired and overwhelmed, I do become very depressed. If I'm unable to work for too long, I start questioning my purpose on this earth and whether or not I deserve to live. When I look at other people, I get the sense that they live with themselves much more gracefully.

    Children   Tired   Long  
    "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
  • I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her. And if anybody is reading my story, I want them to be not only reading the story, but I want them to feel they're having fun; that they're enjoying it. So any way you can make it more informal, more fun-filled, more amusing - instead of just a dry story that goes on and on - if there's any way to do that, I like to try and do it.

    Fun   Hate   Reading  
    Source: www.ign.com
  • I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

    Fun   Years   Laughing  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

  • PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.

    1991 Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.
  • It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

  • It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

    Dope   Class   Political  
  • I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

    Amusing   I Can  
  • Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

    Cells   Years   Would Be  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.37, BoD - Books on Demand
  • 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.

    Pieces   Amusement   Kind  
  • That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

  • It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

    Book   May   Impossible  
    John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood
  • In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  • I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

    Home   Nerves   Useless  
    "Laurence Fox: 'I knew Billie was the one for me...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.
  • As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

    Funny   Children   Mercy  
  • I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

    Keys   Magic   Language  
    Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1251, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

    Men   Shooting   Amusing  
  • You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

    Girl   Sarcastic   Mean  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.279, Simon and Schuster
  • I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.168, Vintage
  • The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

    Strong   Mean   Men  
    Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.184, 谷月社
Page 1 of 11
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • ...
  • 10
  • 11
  • We hope our collection of Amusing quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Amusing is constantly growing (today it includes 313 sayings from famous people about Amusing), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Amusing!