Entertainment Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Entertainment
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~ When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment. ~

Andy Rooney

~ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~

Mary Worley Montagu

~ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~

Mary Worley Montagu

~ The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce ~

John Eliot

~ I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. ~

Steve Martin

John Eliot

~ Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood ~

Walt Disney

~ Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ~

Allan Bloom

~ Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment ~

William Shakespeare

~ The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. ~

Ivor Novello

~ The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures. ~

Ivor Novello

~ Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. ~

Walt Disney

~ Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. - ~

Walt Disney

~ The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. ~

Arthur Erickson

~ There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind. ~

Ivor Novello

~ Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ~

Rita Mae Brown

~ I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. ~

David Ogilvy

~ Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment. ~

Unknown

~ Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ Leisure may prove to be a curse rather than a blessing, unless education teaches a flippant world that leisure is not a synonym for entertainment. ~

William L. Bogan

~ My advice to gardeners is to believe what you see as temporal entertainment; a gift from nature. Do not pass on your interpretation as gospel. Do not seek interpretation from others. ~

Thomas Clothier

~ Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you still don't know the ending. ~

Neil Simon

~ Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. ~

Cicero

~ We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage. ~

Ivor Novello

~ While other women's magazines in the market focus on fashion and beauty, we will be the only luxury-lifestyle magazine with an original, provocative approach to fashion, beauty, society, art, culture, travel and entertainment. ~

Chakrit Pichyangkul

~ Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. ~

Richard Dawkins

~ Born of necessity, the little fellow (Mickey Mouse) literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us. ~

Walt Disney

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