Entertaining Quotes

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. View quote
John Lennon
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally. View quote
Jonah Hill
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. View quote
Alan Ladd
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. View quote
Owen Hart
The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that. View quote
Vince McMahon
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. View quote
George Soros
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. (Alfred North Whitehead)
I really enjoy it -- it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it. View quote
Mike Shinoda
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. View quote
Joseph Addison
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself. View quote
Chuck Klosterman
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party. View quote
Florence Nightingale
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. View quote
Henry Fountain Ashurst
We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid. View quote
Conor Oberst
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. (Pedro Almodóvar)
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor. View quote
James Berardinelli
I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing [sic] me. View quote
Craig Ferguson
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions. View quote
Walt Disney
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. View quote
Michael Morpurgo