31 Amused Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. W. E. B. Du Bois

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Robert Browning

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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. Bret Easton Ellis

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I amused myself playing with the journalists. Brigitte Boisselier

Myself Journalists Playing Amused

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. And I'll tell you a real quick thing: we didn't have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team. Dolph Ziggler

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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. Ellen McLaughlin

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I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. Eugenie Clark

School Sharks Made Breakfast Ate Kindergarten About Classmates More Supper Had Raw Knew Cakes How Octopus Fish Shocked Than Eggs Reports Any Rice Them Produce Sea Teachers Chopsticks Seaweed Amused

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. Hank Azaria

Myself Comedy Mimic Carlin TV Memorize Memorizing Able Entire Martin Steve Steve Martin George George Carlin Lot Huge Up Friends Huge Fan Just Wanted Fan Movies Realizing Really Meant Growing Growing Up Actor Things Albums Amused

You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow. Howard Jacobson

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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people. Ira Glass

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It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught. Jane Smiley

I was totally delighted, interested in, and amused by my stint on 'Voyager.' Joel Grey

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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. John Barton

Me Year Group Intrigued Colour Colours Hot Absurd Institute Became Decide Theory Each Season Each Year Amused

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor. Kesha

Humor Very Five-Year-Old Just Amused

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. Michael Leunig

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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. Richard Stallman

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One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. Scott Walker

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. Shirley MacLaine

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