#semen

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

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bag #basement #down #gets #hotel

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

— Joshua Reynolds

#character #found #his #man #out

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#fear #film #going #good #like

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #continue #earned #endorsement #ensure

We rode the basement trains all night, speeding through the subterrains. I held her chin in the cup of my hand and her eyes held tight to mine, imploring me to reveal to her the mystery of that which awaits us on the pavement above, come the day we ascend from this labyrinth of trains... 'We will ride these beautiful basement trains forever,' said I, 'nothing awaits us; and as your beauty folds, so do my dreams. Come, my love, let us wander these tunnels of the endless city. This holy, endless city! ↗

— Roman Payne

#payne #roman-payne #the-basement-trains #beauty

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#food

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#enforced #immediate #lessons #life #life is a