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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

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

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

Jon Stewart

Amusement

Talk

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?

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

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.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Johnny Rotten

Amusement

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Dolly Parton

Amusement

Girls

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Edmund S. Muskie

Amusement

Media

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

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.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

Frederick Marryat

Amusement