Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights ' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

I'm very good with technology I always have been and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them but a source of fun and amusement.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

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.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act and generally a sad one.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

A am a great friend of public amusements they keep people from vice.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

At Current television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about we don't have environmental cases against us we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.