Famous Quotes & Sayings

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Robert Southey

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

Walt Disney

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Will Rogers

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

Walter Scott

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.

John Marshall

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

John Ortberg

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Ken Ham

We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Joe Legerski

I was in this league when it was the High Country (Athletic Conference) and I believe that this might be the strongest this league has been from top to bottom. There's a lot of winning going on in this league and it's going to be a challenge.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Virginia Woolf

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Mary McCarthy

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Walter Sickert

(About the incessant sopping drizzle in Normandy)It can't go on foreverIt would if it couldBut there's no use talkingFor it wouldn't if it could.

Katharine Lee Bates

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Michel de Montaigne

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

George Steiner

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

Peter Costello

It is in Australia's interests that we promote it in preference to other areas,

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

James Franklin

Interests in Bermuda should monitor the progress of Leslie.

Kevin Zeese

I'm running for U.S. Senate because the two major parties no longer represent the interests of most Americans,

Sen. Garrett

I'm sure there are some special interests who would love to see this go away, but it's not going to.

Jane Clayson

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Mr Bush

The Iranians have said 'We want a weapon' and it's not in the world's interests that they have a weapon.

Stephen Farnsworth

The truth is that it is profitable for private interests to give things to lawmakers. And if it weren't, they wouldn't give them. If it were not profitable for them to put some of their resources in the pockets of lawmakers, they wouldn't do it.

Vernon Duke

Whatever made you go to Paris in April?

Richelle Mead

We cannot road trip to Paris.

Woody Allen

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Rebecca Romijn

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Robert Delaunay

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Willa Cather

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Wes Anderson

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie...

Wole Soyinka

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Twiggy

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Libby Smith

I'll try to think of it as just another tournament; just think of it as the first round of about 120.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

O. Singh

I have to go out there and not worry about the leader. I have to play another solid round tomorrow and wait until Sunday.

Mohammad Saeedi

There was a round of inspections two weeks ago and there will be another from this Saturday to Wednesday,

P. J. Harvey

That first round is always the toughest to get through. Anything can happen.

Greg Pieczynski

It just wasn't very good, obviously. But you need to take into consideration what we were up against. The first round I really didn't do anything all that well, especially putting.

Justin Bartha

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Graeme McDowell

I've been waiting for this round for a while.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Richard Dawkins

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Voltaire

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

William Randolph Hearst

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Samuel Johnson

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

It is our first duty to serve society.

Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Christian Horner

I think qualifying will be an interesting spectacle now,