Quotes About Entertainment

Try to find a little more entertainment from your own resources.' As opposed to going out and buying it.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, Then what happened? and the Age of Sequels began.

Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.

Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness that separates each of us from everybody else. The best response to those who would cheapen and exploit it is not to disparage or repudiate but to reclaim entertainment as a job fit for artists and for audiences, a two-way exchange of attention, experience, and the universal hunger for connection.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

Comic books actually are inferior," Sammy said. "I really do believe that. It's—it's just built in to the material. We're talking about a bunch of guys—and a girl—who run around in their long johns punching people, all right?

The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?

No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.

The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she persevered.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But

entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

You said yourself, John, this park is entertainment," Wu said. "And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused

Who wouldn't want to fuck these people up? Which of us does not understand, in our own less presentable depths, the demons and wizards compelled to persecute human mutations clearly meant, by deities thinking only of their own entertainment, to make almost everyone feel even lonelier and homelier, more awkward, more doubtful and blamed, than we actually are?

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren't fascinated by that? Really?

While I love most, not to say all, of James Thurber's cartoons, there are a handful that seem especially

Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?