Bemusement Quotes

#1. The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

Susan Sontag

#2. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Lewis Black

#3. People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

Bill Hicks

#4. People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

Bill Hicks

#5. there had been times in the past when my sister-in-law's counsel, while never useful, had provided a certain amount of welcome bemusement, like the advice of an oracular hen.

Michael Chabon

#6. Is monstrous fuckpuddle,' Perun asserted, and everyone turned to stare at him with equal parts amusement and bemusement. 'What? Is this not English word?' I suggested that if it wasn't a word, it should be, and the others agreed.

Kevin Hearne

#7. The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Katherine Boo

#8. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.

Christina Dodd

#9. Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Michael W. Smith

#10. The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...

Sam Maloof

#12. It's the only thing I never understood about him,that he had you ... he had you right in the palm of his hand. And yet somehow he didn't want to spend every second of every day touching you all over. He didn't want to make love to you.

Charlotte Stein

#13.
There are basically two movements of consciousness: love and fear. Love is allowing what is, and fear is resisting it.

Nirmala

#14. You are the world, Letha..

Richelle Mead

#15. The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Constantin Stanislavski

#16. The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

Jon Krakauer

#17. If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

Barack Obama

#18. I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#19. Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

James S.A. Corey

#20. We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Lenny Kravitz