I always say what I think to be amusing.Giles CorenTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I always say what I think to be amusing.
“My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants. The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.”Giles CorenDay Job
“At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens - maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don't have dinner parties, we don't entertain.”
“The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.”Charlie BrookerAmusing
“The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.”Peter MilliganAmusing
“Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.”
“There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.”Giles CorenBoarding
“When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn't, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.”Giles CorenAllen
“It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.”Giles CorenPolish
“Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.”Rhianna PratchettAmusing
“I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.”Israel HorovitzAmusing
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”Charles BaudelaireAmusing