Quotes About Entertainment

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained.

The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.

As the world's only remaining superpower, the United States can impose its will on nations, or peoples within those nations. America's voice is 'great', in large part, because of its great wealth and because the nation is the 'the hammer of the whole earth' (Jeremiah 50:23). Another aspect of its status as 'the great voice,' is America's use of its voice as the cultural and entertainment leader of the world.

AMERICAN IDOL draws more viewers than any other television program, week after week. In the most recent season over 624,000,000 votes were cast.

People Magazine recently paid a movie star $4.1 million dollars. To make a movie? No, $4.1 million dollars was paid for the right to publish pictures of the actor's new baby. America's media covered the unfortunate death of singer Michael Jackson non-stop for days on end. We are "mad upon our idols.

Many have observed that Hollywood has the unique talent to 'weave magic spells' in its movies. But that will come to an end, apparently, as Jeremiah tells us that "Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror" (Jeremiah 50:2d). Price Waterhouse Coopers projects that Americans will spend $495 Billion on entertainment in 2013. No other nation on earth spends so much of its national treasure on entertaining itself.

The only significant exception to access to American 'entertainment' is in predominantly Muslim nations, where this form of 'entertainment' is not available. One of Islam's most effective criticisms of America is that we are sex-crazed and morally reprehensible. If one were to base one's opinion of a nation on its movies and television shows produced about itself and its citizens, then the point is made.

But what we have done as a nation, that is much worse in the grand scheme of things, is that we have exported our idol worship to large portions of the globe. Today one can watch the latest American situation comedy (laced with repetitive, pervasive sexual content) in nations in most areas of the globe, appropriately translated into the local language. One can watch the latest movie from Hollywood on a silver screen in movie theaters in any developed nation.

The nation has been in the forefront of promoting adultery, which generally leads to divorce, through its movies and television shows. America

I also hope this book makes each reader aware that his or her personal observations and encounters in the most ordinary of landscapes can and will raise questions and issues routinely avoided by programmed educational and entertainment authorities.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions. We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.

She had never been a gloomy person. There had been some good times aboard Ringmaster, but little out-and-out fun.

Listen, you don't knock my reading habits and I won't knock your old black and white flat films.

All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum down the road and lost his store teeth, and I was heartily sorry to have been a part of it.

They eat the sewage that floats on the surface of the mass culture, digest it, and then get creative diarrhea--all at once. The turd look and smell exactly alike, and we call them this year's fashions, hit shows, books, and movies.