Entertain Quotes

474 Entertain quotes by 414 unique authors

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. — Elvis Presley
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on… — Tom Robbins
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star. — Kid Rock
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even… — Bertrand Russell
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under… — Tom Stoppard
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver
I only entertain very close friends. — Pharrell Williams
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? — Brigham Young
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes… — Charles F. Haanel
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate… — William Shakespeare
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or… — Sheri L. Dew
I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain -… — Emily Dickinson
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... — Anna Godbersen
With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us. — Kurt Cobain
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must… — Marya Hornbacher
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the… — Donna Tartt
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman

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