#amusing

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#amusing #another #been #delivery #i

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#creatures #death #fellow #fellow creatures #his

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws. ↗

— Edward Morris

#awesomeness #inspirational #inspirational

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol. ↗

— John Forsythe

#advanced age #age #amusing #become #rather

Life's more amusing than we thought. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#life #more #than #thought

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. ↗

— Eric Bana

#amusing #appealed #finding #front #getting

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#feel #helpful #i #i think #interesting

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#anecdotes #arrange #down #edit #full

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#any #become #becomes #children #cruelty