Zitat des Tages über Amüsiert / Amused:
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
I amused myself playing with the journalists.
I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.