#musing

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

#art #consists #cures #disease #medicine

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #constantly #creating #film #i

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. ↗

— Orson Welles

#because #class #counted #criminals #distinction

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. ↗

— Mae West

#another #broadway #courtroom #enjoyed #i

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#funny #funny

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#friends #good #good friends #i #i can

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

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares