Entertainment Quotes
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"You are my life now."
"My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health."
"A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires."
"[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."
"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."
"Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"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"
"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"Don't be cool. Like everything."
"There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted."
"Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world."
"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."
"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
"Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane."
"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."
"Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life."
"The old Televisions had an off switch."
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
"Work hard in Silence, Let success make the noise."
"A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives."
"One of your friends may bored , one may tiered , one may feared , what you have to do is to make them entertained , if you can't do it , make them active , if you fail again make a small smile in front of them."
"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'."
"A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers."
"In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music."
"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."
"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?"
"It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot."
"A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour."
"As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me."
"Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living."
"In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?"
"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?"
"Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face."
"Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment."
"A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby."
"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."
Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
"He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim."
"Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical fun"
"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."
"The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation."
"I’m not who you think I am. I’m an actor. Just like all of you. I’m improvising, shooting from the hip. It’s all a lie. I’m a lie. You’re a lie. The lights—they don’t lie. But when they shine, they only tell half the story."
"He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:——but 'twas the fashion of the day to be musically mad, and those who were absurd enough to prefer a rational entertainment to a flimsy opera, were poor insipid beings, without taste or enthusiasm."
"Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking."
"We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking."
"Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too"
"When mind stuck, entertain your heart."
"Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?"He smiled at Roxy. "I would spend the entire evening fending off the hordes of your admirers."She fanned herself and grinned back at him. "You gotta love all that suave debonairness!"
"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."
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