Quotes About Entertainment

Watch TV or something. That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the or something part.

What children do love is ghost stories.

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.

It is a bad musical, but like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do it's job perfectly well.

In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

We are continually being nudged by our devices toward a set of choices. The question is whether those choices are leading us to the life we actually want. I want a life of conversation and friendship, not distraction and entertainment; but every day, many times a day, I'm nudged in the wrong direction. One key part of the art of living faithfully with technology is setting up better nudges for ourselves.

And when we do put on a video or otherwise fire up a screen for a purpose, we'll follow another principle: never entertain your children with anything you find unsatisfying, just like you shouldn't feed your children anything you don't enjoy eating yourself. Feed them with food that is both tasty and nutritious—and entertain them with movies, books, and stories that are both tasty and nutritious too.

So when we do sit down in front of a TV screen, it will be for a specific purpose and with a specific hope, not just of entertainment or distraction but of wonder and exploration. When we do scroll through social media, it will be to have a chance to give thanks for our friends, enjoy their creative gifts, and pray for their needs, rather than just something to take our mind off our tedium.

I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

Because make no mistake: the videos we put on for our kids—or the video games we pull up on our phones in our own moments of boredom—are designed, unconsciously or consciously, to produce a bewitching effect. And that effect is achieved by filling a screen with a level of vividness and velocity that does not exist in the real world—or only very rarely. Because it is rare, we instinctively respond to it, and indeed take delight in it.

As screens—movies, TV, video games—present a world far more colorful and energetic than the created world itself, they not only ratchet up our expectations for what is significant and entertaining; they also undermine our ability to enjoy what we could call the abundance of the ordinary.

the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW

bravo, bravo!' says Terry. 'That was il magnifico de stupendio!' 'Thank you,' says Mr Big Nose, taking a big bow.

dance contest …

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

ROLLING After the parade

David Michael walked up to the desk and rang the bell. "Yes?" asked Karen. "May I help you?" "I'm Bruce Stringbean," said David Michael, giggling. "I'm a big rock and roll star and I need a room for me and my manager and all my friends.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

It was a big room with a shag carpet, antique lamps, a cabinet TV from days when entertainment lurked in the guise of furniture

I wish I had water. I wish I had something to read.

By day the frolic, and the dance by night.

AMBIGU  (A'MBIGU)   n.s.[French.]An entertainment, consisting not of regular courses, but of a medley of dishes set on together. When straiten'd in your time, and servants few,You'd richly then compose an ambigu;Where first and second course, and your desert,All in our single table have their part.King'sArt of Cookery.