Quotes About Entertainment

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

In 1952 NBC put on its early morning Today Show featuring Dave Garroway. Before then the networks had assumed that few people would tune in at an early hour of day: many channels had been blank. At first the show did not do well, but Garroway then brought on stage a chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs. The chimp excited children, then adults, and The Today Show became a popular fixture. Cartoons soon dominated morning TV on weekends.19

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

I am excessively diverted.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. ' '...but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?' 'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

Es gran lectora, y no encuentra placer en otra cosa.

Pourquoi sommes-nous sur terre, sinon pour fournir quelque distraction à nos voisins, et en retour, nous égayer à leurs dépens ?

The loo-table, however, did not appear.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.

There is no enjoyment like reading!

There is no other enjoyment like reading

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce;

Con ese libro hacía lleva­deras sus horas de ocio y se sentía consolado en las de abatimiento.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as pets, for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

When we focus on the future, we do one of three things. We fantasize, which involves big dreams that are mostly for fun and entertainment; we dwell, which involves focusing on all the bad stuff that might happen—this was the official pastime of my hometown—or we hope, which involves envisioning the future while recognizing the inevitability of challenges.