Entertained Quotes
198 quotes by 180 authors
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The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained…
— Fred Hoyle
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All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed,…
— Hugh Mackay
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I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up…
— Dafydd ap Gwilym
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But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the…
— Yanni
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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political…
— James Alexander Thom
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In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,…
— Dudley Nichols
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In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to…
— John Allen Paulos
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Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under…
— Cody Lundin
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No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.
— Jay Baer
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Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may…
— William Symington
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Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums…
— Jock Stein
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the…
— Harold Nicholas
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth…
— Jojo Moyes
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The…
— Al Jarreau
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