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Quotes About Entertainment

Spectacle and entertainment, clearly, are excellent devices to conceal your intentions, but they cannot be used indefinitely. The public grows tired and suspicious, and eventually catches on to the trick.
~ Robert Greene
SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER.
~ Kenneth Grahame
AESTHETICS OF COMEDY ASLEEP Don't wake the clown Or he may knock you down.
~ Kenneth Koch
I'm too sexy for my cape...
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
I thought I saw a puddy tat." He grinned. "You did, you did.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Ah, a storyteller," the general said. "Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day.
~ Kim Harrison
No, we're the two old Muppets on the balcony, cracking lame jokes.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Hans husholderske, fru Irgens født Geelmuyden, grep da leiligheten til å koke og steke til gjæstebud, kalvekjøt og fugl i himmelske saucer blev sat frem, kaker og søte syltetøier til doktoren, herligheter i bakkelser, i geléer. Var frøken Mariane kommet hjem fra en av sine turer til Kristiania eller utlandet kunde hun slutte sig til og ta sit glas med.
~ Knut Hamsun
She, too, is one of Regin's friends. They're poker buddies, sisters of the Wii, and Mari is a vaunted member of the karaoke contingent. Regin has long acted as the witches' designated driver." "BFF?" Lachlain asked, brows drawn. "Sisters of the what?" Emma supplied, "Best friend forever and a video game." Lachlain muttered to Emma, "Your relatives are just no' right.
~ Kresley Cole
She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.
~ Kresley Cole
How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be so hard to vanquish." Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll take you out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure." She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal poker and make shadow animals.
~ Kresley Cole
Lachlain and Emma: 'So you expect us to sit in this enclosed compartment the entire way in silence?' 'Of course not.' She clicked on the radio.
~ Kresley Cole
Despite everything, I felt my lips twitch. If he weren't a homicidal god-wannabe, and I didn't have a murderous red witch inside me, we might've been friends. When his laughter died down, he said, "Back in the day, we would've made a great reality TV show. The Sol and Empress Show." "The
~ Kresley Cole
Lucia replied: I'm about 2 go play Tomb Raider . . . but it's REAL. Bet U wish U were here. HOOKER!
~ Kresley Cole
She chuckled. Chuckled! "I speak Pirates of the Caribbean.
~ Kresley Cole
You guys are humming my balls, right?) ~ Finn
~ Kresley Cole
So . . . gods are real?" Aric nodded. "That's how the game came about. They grew bored.
~ Kresley Cole
Court jester or ambassador. Same difference. Either way you entertain the king.
~ Kresley Cole
The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained. The many ups and downs should not discourage us, for if we are down, we know that a change is coming and we will go up again; while those who are up are almost certain to go down.
~ L. Frank Baum
Scraps thought it was odd that they could be so easily amused, but decided there could be little harm in people who laughed so merrily.
~ L. Frank Baum
As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.
~ Jacob Hashimoto