Amusing Quotes

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

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

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

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.

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

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

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

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

I have the body of a GOD

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

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

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

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.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.