Entertained Quotes

198 quotes by 181 authors

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. — Theodore Roethke
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. — Jim Rohn
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there. — Elaine Stritch
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory… — Major Taylor
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. — Tom Waits
We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing… — Shane Warne
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. — Loretta Young
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first… — Julian Baggini
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have… — Kurt Vonnegut
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.… — Richard G. Scott
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries
They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... — Anna Godbersen
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop,… — Penn Jillette
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past… — Janet Fitch
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's… — Nora Roberts
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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