Amusement Quotes - Page 18

• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• De todas las criaturas que el hombre mata para divertirse, sólo hay una a la que mata por odio: a otros hombres. Nada odia el hombre tanto como a sí mismo. Por eso se llama a la guerra la lepra del alma humana.

  Halldór Laxness

  Hate, War, Men

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

  Willard Fiske

  Morning, Games, World

  Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16

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• Actúa como si el universo fuera un prodigioso milagro creado para tu diversión e iluminación. Asume que ayudantes secretos trabajan entre bastidores para ayudarte a convertirte en la magnífica obra maestra que naciste para ser. Únete a la conspiración para colmar de bendiciones a toda la creación.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blessing, Illumination, Miracle

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• La vida feliz se considera una vida conforme a la virtud. Es una vida que implica esfuerzo y no se gasta en diversiones.

  Aristotle

  Happy Life, Effort, Conformity

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sake, Deceiving, Pleasure

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• To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Frustration, World

  Susan Sontag (1992). "El amante del volcán"

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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• El arte no es un placer, un solaz o una diversión; el arte es un gran asunto. El arte es un órgano de la vida humana, que transmite la percepción razonable del hombre al sentimiento.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arte, Hombres, Sentimientos

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). "¿QUÉ ES EL ARTE? y ¿EN QUÉ ESTÁ LA VERDAD EN EL ARTE? (Meditaciones sobre estética y literatura): Sobre el significado de la ciencia y el arte, Shakespeare y el drama, Las obras de Guy De Maupassant, La tokología de A. Stockham, El diario de Amiel, Historias de campesinos de S. T. Seménov, ¡Para y piensa!", p.175, e-artnow.

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• The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Long, People, Giving

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• Sobre la observación de Sir Joshua Reynolds de que el verdadero carácter de un hombre se descubre por sus diversiones. Sí, señor, ningún hombre es hipócrita en sus placeres.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Hypocrite

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• Es bueno escribir para divertir al público, pero es mucho más noble y elevado escribir para instruirlo, para que obtenga beneficios reales y tangibles.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Benefits, Tangible

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2532, GENERAL PRESS

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• Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

  Josef Pieper

  Art, Silence, Culture

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• Evita la compulsión y deja que la educación temprana sea una cuestión de diversión. Los niños pequeños aprenden jugando; la educación obligatoria no puede permanecer en el alma.

  Plato

  Children, Games, Soul

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• Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

  Stanley Kubrick

  War, Writing, Car

  Acceptance speech of the D.W. Griffiths Lifetime Achievement Award, www.indelibleinc.com. 1999.

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• La jubilación sin diversiones literarias es la muerte misma, y una tumba viviente.

  Séneca el Joven

  Retirement, Tombs

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• There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

  François Fenelon

  Simple, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquesa de Sevigne

  Rain, Book, Order

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregorio Nacianceno

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Pyramids, People, Heaven

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

  Charles Fort

  Science, Records, Transformation

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.67, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

  Walt Disney

  Fans, Parks, Site

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• Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Unique, Want

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

  Will Rogers

  Political, Politics, Discouragement

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). "El libro Will Rogers ", Texian Pr

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