Amusing Quotes - Page 5

• I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

  Rupert Holmes

  Character, Knowing, Mind

  "PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rupert Holmes, Lyricist-Librettist of The Nutty Professor". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. August 4, 2012.

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• 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!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Faces, Facts

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Nature, Liars, Hands

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• They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Sight, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.86, Dial Press

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• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two Nations, Discovery, Agreement

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• There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Interesting, Interest

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3675, Delphi Classics

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Years, Dies

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

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• I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Humorous, Adventure

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Differences

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

  Bob Hope

  Successful, Funny Marriage, Married

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  Yaacov Agam

  Gay, Trying, Friendly

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

  Karen Abbott

  Cities, Chicago, Looks

  Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House

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• Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

  Marlon Brando

  Men, Numbers, May

  "The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, 1979.

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• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dog, Attitude, Character

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• A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Errors, Dull

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.13

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• To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

  John Landy

  Running, Personality, Charming

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Tables, Matter, Table Manners

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Names, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.130, Anchor

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• If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

  Bing Crosby

  Song, Fun, Mistake

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• His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.

  Max Born

  Independent, Science, People

  Max Born (2014). “My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate”, p.270, Routledge

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• We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Real, Inspiration

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