Entertainment Quotes

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. View quote
Walt Disney
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. View quote
Frank Zappa
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point. View quote
George Carlin
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set. View quote
Harriet Van Horne
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. View quote
Steve Martin
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. (W. H. Auden)
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. View quote
David Boreanaz
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. View quote
Joseph Addison
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. View quote
T. S. Eliot
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. View quote
Wim Wenders
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
[A]t its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. View quote
John D. Carmack
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. (Mark Strand)
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. View quote
Ice Cube
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. View quote
Lionel Shriver