#musing

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#characters #comedy #decided #his #human

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

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#been #ever #first #generally #good

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#amusing #dying #find #forgive #friends

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #because #find #funny #happy

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#amusing #chaplin #charlie #could #course

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#amusing #philosophy #tamora-pierce #stupidity

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#reflection #age

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#anger #humor #insult #pigs #anger

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch ↗

— Keisha Keenleyside

#anger #funny #happy #humor #humour