Entertainment Quotes
Noël Coward
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
3251 Jane Austen
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
1912 Rebecca McNutt
People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.
2900 Michael Bassey Johnson
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.
3053 Amit Kalantri
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
1902 Amit Kalantri
As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.
1441 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.
3918 Pushpa Rana
I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.
2409 Orrin Woodward
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
1845 Francis Bacon
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
4419 Toba Beta
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
2794 Johnny Carson
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
4343 Walt Disney Company
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained
4322 Molly Guptill Manning
Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.
4832 Alan Bennett
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
3601 Franz Karl Achard
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.
4455 Richard L. Brandt
In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.
4061 Kinky Friedman
Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
2613 E.A. Bucchianeri
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.
1075 Dean Cavanagh
Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death
3951 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.
3517 Anna Quindlen
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
2445 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.
3313 Dean F. Wilson
I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.
4267 Toba Beta
When mind stuck, entertain your heart.
4010 Clare B. Dunkle
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
2426 Robert Hughes
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
1387 Eugene Mirman
Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face.
2894 Krzysztof Kieślowski
But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.
3401 Roger Ebert
Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.
3058 Bethany Brookbank
... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.
1972 Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.
3877 Sara Sheridan
As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.
2406 J.M. Coetzee
Vergnügen ist Mangelware, aber an Schmerz ist heute überall ranzukommen.
3187 Josef Pieper
The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age - unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.
3478 Auliq Ice
We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.
4226 Unarine Ramaru
We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.
4474 A.O. Storm
Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor
3714 Star Trek Enterprise
Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.
1476 Virginia Woolf
If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.
3768 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
1856 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
3420 Amit Kalantri
Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.
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