Amusement Quotes - Page 4

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

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.

I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.