Peter Singer

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Australian Philosopher

Stanley Kubrick

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.

American Director

Honore de Balzac

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

French Novelist

John Masefield

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.

English Poet

Leonard Cohen

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Canadian Singer

George Bancroft

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

American Historian

Logan Pearsall Smith

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

American Writer

Alan Dean Foster

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

American Author

Voltaire

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

French Writer

Joshua Reynolds

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

English Artist

The context can affect whether 'amusement' implies laughter or just interest.

Context Matters

'Amusement' can range from a slight smile to full laughter.

Varying Degrees

Amusement doesn't always mean loud laughter; it can be silent enjoyment too.

Not Always Loud

'Amusement' can be highly personal; what's entertaining to one may not be for another.

Personal Subjectivity

Amusement can indicate a light-hearted emotional state or mood.

Emotional Indicator

Amusement implies a degree of enjoyment, whether mild or strong.

Degree of Enjoyment

 British technicians waving their gold Oscars on the wane and all kinds of excitements that so I suppose for child it was my Dickensian wonder worlds every every child finds his own amusement park really added the world around him and that was it and then when I arrived at the other end and this really induced

Pico Iyer: A Portable...

 like the letters I used to write to my grandma when I first started university, letters I filled with funny stories and anecdotes that I embellished for her amusement. And I remembered how I couldn't articulate the anxiety and fear that filled me as I tried to carve my tiny little life

Three ideas. Three...

 best idea of all they were gonna rival Disney World and open a table and she amusement park I thought they were smoking dope all right here we are five years later they have a hundred and seventy five franchisees five company owner I'm just waiting for

Entrepreneurs come from...

 - There are a lot of amusement parks in this country. And one thing we have learned after sweating, bleeding, crying, whining, and crawling through the Grand Canyon is there's only one place that looks like the seventh natural wonder of the world.

Grand Canyon Adventure:...

 Coney Island, our local, charmingly run-down amusement park, hosts the Mermaid Parade. It's an amateur parade; people come from all over the city; people get all dressed up. Some people get less dressed up. Young and old, dancing in the streets.

Clay Shirky: Institutions...

 I have some role in whatever thirst you now feel for revenge, and that thirst now tempts me to plot ever more elaborate escapes from our common life, from the schools and neighborhoods and airports and amusement parks

A letter to all who have...

 seeking out new possibilities in the world around us. And that seeking is why so many experiences that started with simple delight and amusement eventually led us to profound breakthroughs.

The playful wonderland...

 their vacation was mostly spent indoors. For amusement, Byron proposed a challenge to his literary Who could write the most chilling ghost story? This sparked an idea in 18-year-old Mary.

Everything you need to...

 Guides call this the red wave. Red, the color of their life vests. I wonder if activities like these are blurring the line between natural sanctuary and amusement park.

Going Underwater For a...

 life in a few days this is vironment we don't like to think the risk but Bertha you can't give anything she was in through the naval amusement park