#amusement

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

— Frederick Marryat

#even #i #instruction #poor #rather

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! ↗

— Sydney Smith

#england #pity #religion #vice

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

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

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny

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

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

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

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

— George MacDonald

#deep #froth #inch #live #mud

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#like #looking #media #mirrors #park