#amusing

Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist’s chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to see how quickly they’d combust? ↗

— Bella Andre

#never-too-hot #romance #experience

Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she meant "mass", and made everyone, including himself, wear goggles even while mixing sugar water. Now try to imagine someone whom your teacher would hate for being anal-retentive. That is the kind of person who works for a bureau of standards and measurement. ↗

— Sam Kean

#humour #science #imagination

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amusing #long #never #ones #stories

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#feel #helpful #i #i think #interesting

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ↗

— William Blake

#heresy #iconoclasm #intuitive-ethics #religion #sophistry

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#characters #comedy #decided #his #human

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#any #become #becomes #children #cruelty

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch ↗

— Keisha Keenleyside

#anger #funny #happy #humor #humour

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time. ↗

— Edith Pargeter

#family #rivalry #family

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. ↗

— David Bailey

#cared #fashion #i #liked #little