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#amusement

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #amusement




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


#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.


Edith Wharton


#amusement #age

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.


Jane Austen


#commentary #humor #snark #humor

Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)


William D. Burt


#money

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


Joseph Addison


#appears #every #lost #man #moment

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


#fear #film #going #good #like

it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual.


Charles H. Spurgeon


#food

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


#amusement #been #find #fun #general

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.


Gary L. Francione


#convenience #defense #eat #entertainment #need

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.


Otis Rush


#around #day #every #every day #first






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