Amusing Quotations

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'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 was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

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

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

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.

The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

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

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

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 duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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

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

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

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

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.

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

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

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is t

No disrespect to North Carolina, ... but this was no upset out here today. To be written off was kind of amusing to me. This team has played in big games, has won big games and demonstrated again it can still win big games.

I guess I can be moderately amusing at times, but the idea of standing up in front of 200 people with beers is just too frightening.

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.

I find it quite amusing that I can frighten children by just saying, Puppies. Usually they're disappointed I don't actually have black and white hair.

I find it particularly amusing -- and frustrating on behalf of the pioneers who have been selling online for years -- that brick-and-mortar guys who announce the opening of their e-store see a huge one-day run-up. Of course, patience brings rewards, and most of those one-day wonders have returned to more normal prices.

I always find it amusing ... Compared to having your prostate removed? ... The only side effects are you feel better and it helps prevent heart disease.

His personality leans to some 'off-color' type of jokes and some people find him funny and amusing to be around and some people take offense. I doubt he will change who he is and nor should he. ... He has kids and now he has to explain why his sense of humor has cost him.

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

What I find very amusing is they're still using machines that have not been proven in any court of law. That they are actually reliable in measuring speed.

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

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

Life's more amusing than we thought.

While it may seem amusing at first, this is really a very serious issue. The more people do their part to control the spread of infections, the less we have to use antibiotics, which lose their potency over time as bacteria develop resistance to them.

Flower Mound took their amusing dog and pony show on the road to outlying communities last night, ... The dog got shot and they were barbequing the pony as I left.

fell for Peter Lorre on screen when he made suave simpering so amusing in 'The Maltese Falcon.'

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, OutrT (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl.

It's a warm-hearted, amusing and sometimes very touching, play. I think the audience will laugh and be moved. And they will thoroughly enjoy the singing.

It is very inspiring and amusing how many people have come out in this genuine and spontaneous way to embrace peace and reject war. It reminds us there is a human and gentle spirit out there in this world.

It's amusing when you're winning, and annoying when you're losing.

It's very lush and romantic and amusing in many aspects, even though it deals with a somewhat serious subject,

I'm not addressing how I feel, how the meeting went. I'm trying to make this as amusing and irrelevant a press conference as I possibly can.

I love that kind of wild attitude in creating things. It is very amusing to me that so many people, designers, creators are trying to remake the '60s. I did (it) at the beginning, just for sort of mockery but gentle mockery,

Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.

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

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

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.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm.

I can see that inevitably people are going to point fingers. I think what is amusing is that people have found a lot more there than I even intended, ... I think in any satire about a prime-time soap, especially one starring young people, you're going to have the bitch. And you're going to have the narcissistic young actor. You're going to have the insecure girl. You're going to have elements of nepotism.

noodles are not only amusing but delicious ...

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''

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

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

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

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

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.