#amusing

I'm familiar with the myth, I'm merely surprised that a female would be familiar with the classics." "You must have a very limited experience with my sex," Alexandra said, surprised. "My grandfather said most women are every bit as intelligent as men." She saw his eyes take on the sudden gleam of suppressed laughter and assumed, mistakenly, that he was amused by her assessment of female intelligence rather than her remark about his inexperience with women. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#funny #historical-romance #woman-power #experience

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #everything #less #oneself

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#amusing #anybody #himself #how #knows

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing. ↗

— John Dyer

#across #all day #amusing #assume #day

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#anecdotes #arrange #down #edit #full