#amusement

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#entertainment #men #toys #women #men

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

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. ↗

— John Masefield

#become #being #came #ceased #community

I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme park of my own design. Should Vowell World ever get enough investors, I'm going to stick my Tom Sawyer Island in Love and Death in the American Novel Land right between the Jay Gatsby Swimming Pool and Tom Joad's Dust Bowl Lanes, a Depression-themed bowling alley renting artfully worn-out shoes. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#as-i-lay-dying #great-gatsby #humor #mark-twain #tom-sawyer

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

— Jane Austen

#commentary #humor #snark #humor

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

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

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

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#amusements #friend #great #keep #people

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #included #jokes #little #mysteries