Best 111 quotes in «amusing quotes» category

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

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

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.

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.

I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

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

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 would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

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

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

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

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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.

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

Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.

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 Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus turned and glared at the immortal. "If you do that one more time, I'm going to feed you to the Lotan myself." "And I will help," Niten added.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

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

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

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

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

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

April 43rd 2000 Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.

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.

and let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team

And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and bristling grey fur; its body was a blob, the kind of shape a six-year-old would draw for a pig, and its face was flattened like a racoon that had run full tilt into a brick wall. A triangular stub of a nose jutted out at an angle beneath a fringe that must have been difficult to see through. In fact, from side-on it looked disturbingly like John Lennon.

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.

Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.