Amusing Quotes - Page 2

• The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Mean, Men

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.184, 谷月社

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• A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, Men, Two

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hate, Eye, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.699, Penguin

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• Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Interesting

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

  Neil Postman

  People, Culture, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin

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• Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Leadership, Two, Interesting

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.148, Macmillan

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

  Mae West

  Sassy, Broadway, Stage

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

  John Flanagan

  Brain, Halt, These Days

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• I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

  Al Yankovic

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  I Can

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• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Crush, Horse, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Reason, Novel

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sex, Reading, Computer

  "The Odyssey File". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Want, Pixels, Type

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• I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cousin, Dancing, Trying

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels, clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, uk.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Feet, People, Cry

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921). “Rilla of Ingleside”

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• Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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• What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

  John Hodgman

  Past, Museums, Relics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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

  Spike Milligan

  Use, Quiet

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• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

  J. D. Salinger

  Two, Looks, Ugly

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• 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.

  Bob Newhart

  Speed, Delivery, Accountants

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

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• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  J. K. Rowling

  College, Views, Imagination

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• My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad to think that such archaic and potentially dangerous censorious beliefs still exist, and amused because these censors only make a book more powerful and seductive when trying to ban it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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