Amusing Quotes - Page 5

• It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.

  Mark Flood

  Thinking, Quality, Hateful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.

  Katie Kitamura

  Real, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

  Eugene Souleiman

  Art, People, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was something I could do. I sort of meandered and really had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I had a go at stand-up, and I was sort of okay at it. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. So I'd say it was probably more about that than anything.

  Eric Bana

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I was a small child. Although it's often quite amusing, it's exhausting at times to live with myself, and when I'm tired and overwhelmed, I do become very depressed. If I'm unable to work for too long, I start questioning my purpose on this earth and whether or not I deserve to live. When I look at other people, I get the sense that they live with themselves much more gracefully.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Children, Tired, Long

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I find it highly amusing that Donald Trump talks about "Make America Great Again." He doesn`t make a thing in America, except bankruptcies.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bankruptcy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her. And if anybody is reading my story, I want them to be not only reading the story, but I want them to feel they're having fun; that they're enjoying it. So any way you can make it more informal, more fun-filled, more amusing - instead of just a dry story that goes on and on - if there's any way to do that, I like to try and do it.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.

  Tim Winton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

  George W. Bush

  Analysis, Looks, Way

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

  Sho Baraka

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

  Truman Capote

  Father, Nice, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Oscars, Wilde

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

  Nina Totenberg

  Sides, Looks, Mouths

  "Justice Scalia's Funeral Mass To Bring Together Unlikely Peers". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

  George Will

  Discovery, Profound, President

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

  Peter Ustinov

  Thinking, Serious Person, Sides

  "Ustinov's comic touch". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Girl, Character, Waiting

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Government, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.8, Vintage

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• The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

  Albert Einstein

  Garden, Ideas, Light

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doe, Attractive, Concern

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.69, Vintage

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• If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gentleman, Ordinary

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

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• What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Today, Tomorrow, Accepted

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