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Quotes About Entertaining

Why, sir, what's all this? Surely you have not forgot you are entertaining the Captain?' 'And how am I supposed to entertain the Captain, for all love?' asked Stephen. 'Am I to grin at him through a horse-collar, propose riddles and conundrums, cut capers?' 'Come, sir,' said Calamy, 'the gunroom is entertaining the Captain to dinner, and you have only ten minutes to change. There is not a moment to be lost.
~ Patrick O'Brian
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
~ Jeffrey Lewis
She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.
~ David Baldacci
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
~ Christopher Morley
I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.
~ Clarissa Dickson Wright
After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.
~ Unknown
Don't you ever imagine?" "What's the imagination got to do with anything?" "It's better than your ever increasing accuracies. They're as phoney as silicon boobs. Like proper tits, inaccuracies are much more entertaining.
~ Unknown
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
~ Liane Moriarty
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. But
~ Liane Moriarty
I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
~ Jodi Benson
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
~ Katherine Dunn
I love vegan tacos... soooo good! I invite friends over to have some, and they can't believe they aren't eating real meat.
~ Karen Civil
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
~ Ina Garten
I love using hummus as centerpiece and then making different containers of vegetables for fun dipping.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.
~ Norm MacDonald
George Lopez is always on the verge of hilarity. If he could ever think of something funny to say, if he had a funny thought in his mind, he's ready to go.
~ Andy Kindler
wonder if Martha Stewart's guests are greeted at the door with her sweating, crying, and shouting, 'Here's a recipe; get to work or we're never eating Thanksgiving dinner!'" I
~ Jen Lancaster
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!
~ Tananarive Due
One day, my brother had his friend over, and they were in the laundry room, and I stuck my puppet's head around the door and then started chasing them with it and made my puppet laugh very scary. It was really funny.
~ Darci Lynne Farmer
When you're entertaining, and I still haven't accomplished this because I'm always stuck in the kitchen, but spend enough time actually with your guests. It allows you to chill with your friends and be an actual, normal human as opposed to being in the kitchen cooking all the time.
~ Antoni Porowski
I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
~ Eileen Myles
When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.
~ Jesse Watters
I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
~ Gene Simmons