Entertainments Quotes

21 Entertainments quotes by 21 unique authors

It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more… — Jonathan Rosenbaum
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas. — Philip Kaufman
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have… — Delta Burke
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
I think of my novels as entertainments. — Stephen L. Carter
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be… — Walt Disney
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. — Stephen Sondheim
One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks,… — Daniel Handler
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
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization… — Kurt Vonnegut
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. — Gregory Maguire
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and… — James Joyce
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed… — Naomi Wolf
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed.… — Chuck Palahniuk
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments. — Quentin Blake
If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got… — John Le Carre

Who Wrote These Entertainments Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Entertainments Quotes as follows: