Quotations on Amusement

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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
(Keywords: People, Fear, Amusement, Film)

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
- George Bancroft
(Keywords: Truth, Amusement, Neighbors)

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
- Max Beckmann
(Keywords: Art, Amusement, Play)

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
- Avery Brundage
(Keywords: Education, Life, Goal, Amusement, Eyes, Recreation, Vocation)

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
(Keywords: Life, Amusement, Danger, Harmony, Joy, Laughter, Learning, Spirit, Wit)

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
- Brian Eno
(Keywords: Technology, People, Amusement, Fun, Machines)

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Keywords: Action, Amusement, Old, Prayer, Woman)

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
- Beverly Jones
(Keywords: Romance, Amusement, Reward, Running, Thinking)

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- John Masefield
(Keywords: Poetry, Amusement, Being, Community, Delight, Man, Press, Printing)

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
- Otis Rush
(Keywords: Time, Sister, Thought, Amusement, Day, First, Guitar, Play, World)

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Keywords: Death, Amusement, Race)

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Logan P. Smith
(Keywords: Love, Amusement, Malice)

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
- Bruce Sterling
(Keywords: Environmental, Idea, Possibility, Amusement, Disaster)

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
- David Storey
(Keywords: People, Amusement, Being, Football)

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
- Lewis Tappan
(Keywords: Men, Amusement, Prison, Strangers)