#musing

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

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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

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#amusing #challenging #constantly #difficult #insane

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#another #ask #communicate #entertaining #experience

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. ↗

— William Shatner

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I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad. ↗

— Grace Slick

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I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#musings #life

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor