Entertainment Quotes

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

~ Billy Graham

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment youattend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

~ Billy Graham

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

~ Billy Graham

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.

~ Billy Graham

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals

~ John Mark Reynolds

To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

~ Daniel R. Thorne

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

~ Sam Joseph Haim

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't entertain fear, it does not entertain you either, it only scares you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If your dream is all about winning an ‪#oscar‬, a ‪‎grammy‬, an ‪#emmy‬, or another award, give up and quit now!Why dream for accolades, awards, recognition or celebrity status?Dream to learn, achieve, grow, sustain and succeed.You will be a happier person in life over trying to define your success or your dream by what others think of you.

~ Loren Weisman

Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.

~ Les Lynam

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

~ Amit Kalantri

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.

~ Ernest Shackleton

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

~ John Geddes

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

~ David Talbot

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.

~ Carroll Bryant

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers weren't for radiophiles. There was nothing easygoing about the folk songs I sang. They weren't friendly or ripe with mellowness. They didn't come gently to the shore. I guess you could say they weren't commercial.Not only that, my style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important that just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic. Greil Marcus, the music historian, would some thirty years later call it the invisible republic.Whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambitions to stir things up. i just thought of popular culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk on it.I didn't know what age of history we were in nor what the truth of it was. Nobody bothered with that. If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs taught me that.

~ Bob Dylan

Murder was a fascination as always.

~ Erik Larson

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

~ Cedar Cove

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

~ Frederik L. Schodt

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

~ Amit Kalantri

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

~ Michael Crichton

Truth is for life, lies are for entertainment.

~ M Chapman

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

~ Josef Pieper

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

~ John Cage

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

~ Clay Shirky