Entertainment Quotes - Page 2

Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.

When mind stuck, entertain your heart.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face.

It’s possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.

But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.

Thinking minds doesn't get bored.