Amusement Quotes
Amusement Quote of the day
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
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.
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.