Quotes About Entertainment

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

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

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisión sin muros de la que los presos ni siquiera sonarían con escapar.Sería esencialmente un sistema de esclavitud,en el que gracias al consumo y el entretenimiento,los esclavos amarian su servidumbre.

And no wonder; for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions, or when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence cases to have any point of meaning

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's

if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon;