Amusement Quotes

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

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

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.

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

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

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

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.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.