Best 111 quotes in «amusing quotes» category

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.”Machaon responded tersely.

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!

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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

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

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

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.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They're sort of like camp caricatures of what you expect an aristocrat should be: vicious, rude, caustic unpleasantries.

I find it highly amusing that Donald Trump talks about "Make America Great Again." He doesn`t make a thing in America, except bankruptcies.

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always 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 learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

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.

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.

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!