Amusement Quotes - page 5

The increasing demand for these objects of amusement, it is said, suggested the idea of cutting the outlines appropriated to the different suits upon separate blocks of wood and stamping them upon the cards; the intermediate spaces between the outlines were filled up with various colours laid on by the hand. This expeditious method of producing cards reduced the price of them, so that they might readily be purchased by almost every class of persons: the common usage of cards was soon productive of serious evils, which all the exertions of the legislative power have not been able to eradicate. (Joseph Strutt)
In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater. View quote
Wallace Shawn
I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and Westworld, where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me. View quote
Kimberly Elise
The processes that may be employed, to give to portions of inert matter, precise movements resembling those of organized beings, are innumerable, as they consist of an indefinite number and variety of cords pulleys, toothed-wheels, nails, screws, levers, inclined-planes, as well as agencies of air, water, fire, light, &c., combined in endless modes to produce a desired effect Ingenuity has been long exercised on such combinations, chiefly for public amusement or mystification, without any object of utility. View quote
Andrew Ure
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. View quote
Armistead Maupin
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. View quote
Frederick Marryat
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. View quote
Gilberto Hernandez
Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently. View quote
Graeme Simsion
I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks. View quote
Jennette McCurdy
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. View quote
Jim C. Hines
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement. (Lady Gregory)
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics. View quote
Lewis Tappan
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer! View quote
Roman Coppola
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' View quote
Sloane Crosley
The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. View quote
Stephanie Klein
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. View quote
John Lydon
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. View quote
Leonard Cohen
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose.... View quote
George Eliot
Slowly his eyes left my hair and traveled downwards. This time he really took in my outfit and then that Look that I'm always encountering; that special one composed in equal parts of amusement, astonishment and horror came over his face. I am not a moron and I can generally guess what causes this look. The trouble is, it's always something different. I squirmed uncomfortably, feeling his eyes bearing down on my bare shoulders and breasts. "What the hell are you doing in the middle of the morning with an evening dress on?” he asked me finally. "Sorry about that,” I said quickly, "but it's all I've got to wear. My laundry hasn't come back yet.”. View quote
Elaine Dundy
She said faintly, "Are you...real?” Amusement showed in his face. "Real?” he said. "Define reality and I can answer you.” He waved a hand. "Look into solid earth, into rock, and see the galaxies of all Creation. What you call reality melts; there is a whirling, a spinning of forces, a dance of motes and atoms. Some of them we call planets, one of them is Earth. Nothingness within nothingness enclosing nothing, that is reality. Tell me what you want, and I can answer.”. View quote
Keith Roberts
Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing. (Susan Sontag)
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. View quote
Alexander Pope
The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other. View quote
Jonathan Richardson
Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate individual can be thrown in the way of amusement. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon