Quotes About Entertainment

His eyes weren't closed like they used to be when he'd make Danny tell about an ice castle on Pluto where a band of pirates lived. But wanting to be told a story, entertained, however that looks on a person's face--Danny saw this now and remembered it. It filled him with relief.

We've lost the ability to make things up. We've farmed out that job to the entertainment industry, and we sit around and drool on ourselves while they do it for us.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

She did Gladys Knight." "With the Pips or without? She does it both ways." "With the Pips.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Sale a relucir aquello de las tres fieras, toro, torero y público; la primera, que se deja matar porque no tiene más remedio; la segunda, que cobra por matar; la tercera, que paga para que maten, de modo que viene a resultar más feroz.

Clutter is knowing all of the things that you absorb through your fashion magazines. Clutter is knowing which celebrities broke up with whom and why.

How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

myself! I'm pretty good at a spot of conjuring

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Artemis hooked the speaker over one ear, adjusting the mike stem so it wound across his mouth. 'Foaly? Are you listening?' 'Are you kidding?' came the reply. 'This is better than human soap operas.

Justin Timber-guy

There was nothing on the TV. Except pay-per-view and I refuse to buy programmes, on principle. Except that chef guy with the foul mouth.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

No. Instead from school it's straight off to the theatre, to a gladiatorial game, to an athletic show or the circus. Then from there you come back here, and from here, off you go again, the same people, the same pursuits – [15] you show no serious discipline, concern, or care for yourself.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They