Entertainment Quotes

1237 Entertainment quotes by 921 unique authors

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point. — George Carlin
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. — Ambrose Bierce
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. — Frank Zappa
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary… — Nathaniel Branden
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality. — Michael Crichton
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment. — Kurt Vonnegut
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd… — Bill Watterson
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to… — James Hillman
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions,… — Joyce Carol Oates
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was… — D. A. Carson
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. — Jane Austen
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense. — Christopher Moore
Don’t just stand there let’s get to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. — Madonna Ciccone
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed… — Nora Roberts
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and… — Dorothy Parker
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,… — Leonard Cohen
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she… — Tao Lin
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment. — David Mamet
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment — Jim Butcher
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment… — William Shakespeare
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend… — Suzanne Collins
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form… — Neil Postman

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