Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

Jennette McCurdy

I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.

Joseph Addison

Encourage innocent amusement.

James Atlas

To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

Larry Ellison

Arcade Planet is leveraging its expertise in the coin-operated amusement and video game industry to offer an unmatched online entertainment experience.

John Thompson

A nice well-equipped, state-of-the-art amusement centre of the type we have planned to develop will cost in excess of US$500,000 to get the minimum basic infrastructure to develop the park to its former glory... and we can't find the money, so we need help.

There was no real decline in popularity for the Flying Turns. In fact, they were some of the most popular rides at any amusement park. Unfortunately, most of the places that had them are now closed or had them taken out.

George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Al Smith

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Charles Comiskey

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Jonathan Ames

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

Sean Penn

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

Max von Sydow

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Robert Lewis

The women like the shopping, the kids like the amusement opportunities and a lot of time the men like the golf.

Oscar Wilde

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

Alexander Downer

Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,

Iggy Pop

I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.

Samuel Johnson

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Christopher Fowler

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

Brooke Adams

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

John Ortberg

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

Burgess Meredith

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Gilbert Burnet

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

Sharon Kay Penman

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

David Thomson

I'd say where he is now he's in a pretty amused state, and I hope he'd look down on it fondly with a smile. Everyone involved has tried to produce the book (Brando and Cammell) would have.

But truthfully, I like the work in progress. Now that I'm finished, it doesn't amuse me as much, so I'll probably have to change it soon.

Karl Rove

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

John Green

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Oliver Goldsmith

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.