#amused

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Habib Bourguiba

#cease #happy #himself #laugh #never

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗

— Robert Browning

#before #learns #old #perhaps #rather

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

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#disgusted #i #now #try #used

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ceased #himself #how #knows #laugh

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#cease #himself #how #knows #laugh

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#adore #amused #audience #drop #i

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever