Amused Quotes - Page 6

• One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Mean, Looks, Rockets

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

  Nancy Mitford

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Ifs

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

  Laozi

  Death, Kings, Grandmother

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• I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

  Joss Whedon

  Teacher, Teaching, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Impact, People, Stories

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• They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

  Jon Stewart

  Soccer, Thinking, Balls

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• The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

  Charles Saatchi

  Memories, Eye, House

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “Babble”, p.152

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• Miami, you can never run out of material. As long as you have Miami around you, you will never, never stop being amused.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Long, Miami

  "Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2013.

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• There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.

  Dave McKean

  Beautiful, Jobs, Sex

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• Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Interesting, May

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• Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.

  Judith Regan

  Eye, Years, Editors

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

  James Atlas

  Amusement, Wilson, Educated

  1985 Of Edmund Wilson. In the New York Times, 28 Jul, reviewing David Castronovo Edmund Wilson (1984).

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  Bela Lugosi

  Hollywood, Amusement, Type

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

  Robert Genn

  Muse, Renewal, Process

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• I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Land

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Principles, Modern Life, World

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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• Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Men, Miracle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

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• I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

  William Styron

  Book, Writing, Past

  William Styron (1993). “This Quiet Dust and Other Writings”, Vintage

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• Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophy, Math, Thinking

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

  Viola Spolin

  Children, Punishment, Play

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• Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Enlightened, Be Prepared, Provoked

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• We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.

  Jeff Cooper

  Wise, Men, Hysteria

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