Entertain Quotes

474 Entertain quotes by 414 unique authors

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but… — Lynda Resnick
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them,… — Owen Hart
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time. Amaryllis's voice is… — Susan Wiggs
My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. — Howard Thurston
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been… — John Taylor Gatto
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama… — Nate Silver
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She… — Edmund Burke
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. — Walter Raleigh
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. — John Steinbeck
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the… — Tom T. Hall
Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. — William Shakespeare
Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt,… — Simon Greenleaf
My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people. — Sarah Schulman
Whenever I climb I have to also entertain. — Alain Robert
Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches. — Frederic Bastiat
When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn… — Jack Handey
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. — Unknown Author
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it… — Colleen Atwood
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris… — Denis Diderot
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to… — Karl Barth
I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed… — Budd Schulberg

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