38 Amuse Quotes for You to Enjoy

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. Paul Rand

Small things amuse small minds. Doris Lessing

Small Things Small Minds Minds Small Things Amuse

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. Abraham Lincoln

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I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me. Twinkle Khanna

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It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. Adrian Edmondson

Together People Other Back Laugh Only Unreservedly Because Still Been Refreshing After Again Working Works Each Amuse

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him. Al Jourgensen

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Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything. Allen Klein

Kids Almost Almost Anything Anything Themselves Amuse

'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.' Cyrano de Bergerac

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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics. Edmund White

Politics Truth Will Feminism Manners Dares About Since Make Readers Offend Undoubtedly Shock Fun Many Amuse

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews. Elliott Abrams

History You Yourself People Nothing Living Jews Boring Boring People Attacking Well May Little Much Teaches Apparently European Amuse

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process. Eric Stoltz

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse. Federico Fellini

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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself. Frederic William Farrar

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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. George Henry Lewes

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My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton

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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. Ira Glass

People Better Try Think More More People Get Stories Themselves Amuse

We only ever write jokes that amuse us. Jay Chandrasekhar

Jokes Only Write Us Ever Amuse

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way. Jonathan Ames

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Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me. Jonathan Ames

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. Joseph Howe

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends. Lauren Santo Domingo

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