#amusement

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

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. ↗

— Karl Rove

#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself ↗

— Aristotle

#happiness #life

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#appears #every #lost #man #moment

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

— Joshua Reynolds

#character #found #his #man #out

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

#amusement #been #find #fun #general

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#against #amusement #business #cases #companies

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. ↗

— Otis Rush

#around #day #every #every day #first

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. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#attached #great #ice #large #lump