Amusement

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

- Jon Stewart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

- Brian Eno Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Arcade Planet is leveraging its expertise in the coin-operated amusement and video game industry to offer an unmatched online entertainment experience.

- Larry Ellison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

- Johnny Rotten Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone

- Bruce Sterling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

- George MacDonald Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Queen Victoria Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are so many things to learn and it's not just a source of amusement, but it is sometimes hilarious. Not too long ago they brought in this woman who was about 70 and she was naked as a jaybird out directing traffic on I-65.

- Bill Robinson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

- Jean Iris Murdoch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are not amused.

- Queen Victoria Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

- Honoré de Balzac Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

- Alan Dean Foster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

- David Mamet Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Like most people, I don't want to support cruelty to animals, whether it's forcing horses to race for our amusement or scalding chickens alive for our plate. We have to be more evolved than this.

- Pamela Anderson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

- Beverly Jones Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Charlene Gentile keeps the front of the house under control, and is also responsible for the fine wine list. We are all family here, ... On some days when the restaurant is closed Charlene and I have the whole staff over to our house. It is a crazy business. It's like an amusement park with the biggest, most incredible roller coaster. We look forward to every day as a special event and the satisfaction we get from experimenting with new ideas, like having the choice of anything in a candy store.

- Kevin Kelly Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

- Sean Penn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

- Edmund Muskie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A comprehensive program might require at least 5 million, which would enable the commission to enforce the reporting requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Act, continue to work with state and local amusement ride officials to identify and investigate possibly defective fixed-site amusement rides and obtain corrective actions where appropriate.

- Ann Brown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

- Gilbert Hernandez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

- Armistead Maupin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

- Dorothy L. Sayers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes