Quotes About Entertainment

I love it when someone's laugh is funnier than the joke.

How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.

But failure to understand a joke has never yet made anyone find it less amusing,

while the scene-changing is going on behind it, actors present a divertissement.

Cindy thought Godzilla was great. She liked him better than her ant farm. After all, there wasn't much you could do with pet ants except watch them work. We played with Godzilla all afternoon, and all the next day, too. Godzilla liked it when we made tunnels out of grocery bags.

I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: "To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.

Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.

Oh, here. Here's the record player." Barney lifted a light-blue and white case from one of the eaves. She set it on a trunk and unlatched the lid. "Ever see one of these?" She held up a small plastic disklike thing. Cara and Allie both shook their heads. "This is an insert that you'd put inside one of the forty-five singles so they'd play.

Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to how many pages the reader could get through without throwing up. (Lorinda, chapter 1)