Amusing Quotes - Page 13

• Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Laughter, Mouths, Quirks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

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• When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Hunting, Goes On

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.326, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll takeyou out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure."She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal pokerand make shadow animals.

  Kresley Cole

  Animal, Cells, Pet

  Kresley Cole (2012). “The Brothers Wroth: Warlord Wants Forever, No Rest for the Wicked, Dark Needs at Night's Edge, Untouchable”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  Yahoo Serious

  Challenges, Insane, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

  Julia Child

  Food, Noodles, Delicious

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• America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

  John Piper

  America, Culture, Firsts

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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Games, People

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Nov. 1952. The Post article is quoting an article in Quick Magazine from the summer of 1951. According to a letter by William S. Rubin in the New York Times, 5 Jan. 1969, this is "a trumpery originated in Il Libro Nero published by Giovanni Papini in 1951."

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• The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Next, Shapes, Problem

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.426, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

  Madeline Kahn

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Madeline Kahn, on The Road Back to Broadway; At the National Theatre, Remaking Billie Dawn for A New 'Born Yesterday'" by Joe Brown, The Washington Post, October 26, 1988.

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• Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.

  David Cannadine

  New York, Long, People

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?

  Wendy Kaminer

  Book, Angel, Atheism

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• I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, Men, Years

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Music, Two

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