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Quotations regarding 'Amusement'

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison, English Writer (1672-1719)
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
Darren Aronofsky, American Director (1969-  )
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft, American Historian (1800-1891)
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann, German Artist (1884-1950)
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage, American Athlete (1887-1975)
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll, English Author (1832-1898)
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, British Musician (1948-  )
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst, German Artist (1891-1976)
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
Alan Dean Foster, Author (1946-  )
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione, American Educator
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader (1869-1948)
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, American Artist (1957-  )
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, American Writer
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist (1824-1905)
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet, American Dramatist (1947-  )
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Frederick Marryat, English Novelist (1792-1848)
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield, English Poet (1878-1967)
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
Armistead Maupin, American Novelist (1944-  )
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician (1914-1996)
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton, American Musician (1946-  )
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