Amused Quotes - Page 8

• Hasn’t anyone ever told you,” Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, “ that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?” Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I’d seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

  Meg Cabot

  Hands, Voice, Gentleman

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused. “I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined and six feet under.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.264, Dell

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Amusement, Nations

  15 Copy quote

• Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Attitude, Confused, Eye

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Clouds, Views

  21 Copy quote

• I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

  Mary MacLane

  Doe, Genius, Expected

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What Happens
  
  What happens when your soul
  Begins to awaken
  Your eyes
  And your heart
  And the cells of your body
  To the great Journey of Love?
  
  First there is wonderful laughter
  And probably precious tears
  
  And a hundred sweet promises
  And those heroic vows
  No one can ever keep.
  
  But still God is delighted and amused
  You once tried to be a saint.
  
  What happens when your soul
  Begins to awake in this world
  
  To our deep need to love
  And serve the Friend?
  
  O the Beloved
  Will send you
  One of His wonderful, wild companions -
  
  Like Hafiz.

  Hafez

  Love, Sweet, Laughter

  696 Copy quote

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  Karen Morley

  Song, Kings, Unions

  7 Copy quote

• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Skills, Ideas

  6 Copy quote

• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

  20 Copy quote

• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Should Have, Mind, Century

  5 Copy quote

• Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

  Ralph Marston

  Heart, Jumping, Chance

  18 Copy quote

• People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Bored, People, Personality

  Claude C. Hopkins (2010). “Scientific Advertising”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, If I Could

  5 Copy quote

• I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

  Roger Waters

  Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out

  "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Want, New Testament

  28 Copy quote

• If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.180, 1st World Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.

  Stephen Crane

  Summer, Men, Hands

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.463, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

  Vicki Davis

  Time, Morning, Taken

  10 Copy quote

• Excuse us for the news,
  You might not be amused;
  But did you know White comes from Black?
  No need to be confused.

  Chuck D

  Confused, Rap, White

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Character, Perfect, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

  17 Copy quote

• I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact, all I need is what I've decided on, in my heart to believe. In all the crossing confusion and haste of numerous opinion and stance, my own opinion has become my own boat from where I observe the raging opinions of the sea, relaxed, drinking my lemonade and feeling very amused by it all.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Drinking, Believe, Heart

  4 Copy quote