Entertain Quotes - page 2

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful. (Enoch Powell)
The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise. View quote
Claud Cockburn
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do. View quote
John Larroquette
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time. View quote
Ben Affleck
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. View quote
Peter Greenaway
I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science. View quote
Georg Cantor
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? View quote
Pliny the Elder
With the lights out, it's less dangerous Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid, and contagious Here we are now, entertain us. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place. (Christopher Moore (author))
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. View quote
Paul
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. View quote
Mark Haddon
I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums. View quote
Norman Wisdom
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future. View quote
Peter Prange
Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason. View quote
Rick Riordan
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. View quote
Eartha Kitt
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. View quote
Dorothy Garlock
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? (Mary Manin Morrissey)
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. View quote
Richard Thompson
At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation. View quote
Paul Feig
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. View quote
Anna Held