#amuse

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#disgusted #i #now #try #used

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

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#again #amuse #back #because #been

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons. ↗

— Hope Emerson

#amuse #around #bit #blues #had

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#ever #far #i #idiot #laugh

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#anyone #anyway #assumption #attitudes #balance

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#comic #however #may #never #powers

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it. ↗

— David Storey

#amusement #being #enjoy #field #football

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animate #instruct #literature #object