Quotes about Entertain

Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk. Votes: 3

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. Votes: 3

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. Votes: 3

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. Votes: 3

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!" Votes: 3

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. Votes: 3

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me. Votes: 3

I always entertain great hopes. Votes: 2

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Votes: 2

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them. Votes: 2

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. Votes: 2

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. Votes: 2

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. Votes: 2

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. Votes: 2

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Votes: 2

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Votes: 2

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. Votes: 2

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. Votes: 2

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. Votes: 2

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. Votes: 2

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food. Votes: 2

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. Votes: 2

Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues. Votes: 2

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling. Votes: 2

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people. Votes: 2

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Votes: 2

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. Votes: 2

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. Votes: 2

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. Votes: 2

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. Votes: 2

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows. Votes: 2

I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

I just want to entertain. Votes: 0

I only entertain very close friends. Votes: 0

When mind stuck, entertain your heart. Votes: 0

I love to cook and entertain. Votes: 0

I love to entertain an audience. Votes: 0

Here we are now, entertain us. Votes: 0

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain. Votes: 0

Pages entertain me more than pictures do. Votes: 0

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches. Votes: 0

I'd rather entertain people than offend them. Votes: 0

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. Votes: 0

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people. Votes: 0

You can still entertain without getting a knockout. Votes: 0

People entertain me more than I entertain them. Votes: 0

You either entertain an audience or you don't. Votes: 0

I love to entertain and make people laugh. Votes: 0

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. Votes: 0

I am not here to entertain straight people. Votes: 0

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain. Votes: 0

I entertain for a living, and I entertain. Votes: 0

My goal is to entertain myself and others. Votes: 0

I want to entertain people, but with some substance. Votes: 0

Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself. Votes: 0

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious. Votes: 0

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us! Votes: 0

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. Votes: 0

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us. Votes: 0

I will not entertain or dwell on negative things. Votes: 0

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny. Votes: 0

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien. Votes: 0

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Votes: 0

The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists. Votes: 0

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people. Votes: 0

I write storys to entertain not to be the best Votes: 0

When I want to entertain entertainers, I call Jason Randal! Votes: 0

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. Votes: 0

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.. Votes: 0

I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably. Votes: 0

I observe my thoughts and entertain only those that empower me. Votes: 0

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. Votes: 0

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained. Votes: 0

Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me. Votes: 0

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you. Votes: 0

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to. Votes: 0

The best way to get your point across is to entertain. Votes: 0

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy. Votes: 0

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh. Votes: 0

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. Votes: 0

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. Votes: 0

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain. Votes: 0

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain. Votes: 0

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. Votes: 0

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. Votes: 0

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you. Votes: 0

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Votes: 0

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. Votes: 0

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance. Votes: 0

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... Votes: 0

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath. Votes: 0

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. Votes: 0

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer. Votes: 0

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable. Votes: 0

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. Votes: 0

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. Votes: 0

The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols. Votes: 0

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond. Votes: 0

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. Votes: 0

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union. Votes: 0

It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd. Votes: 0

Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy. Votes: 0

If I can entertain and expand awareness then I feel like I've fulfilled a purpose. Votes: 0

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain. Votes: 0

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth. Votes: 0

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. Votes: 0

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music. Votes: 0

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves. Votes: 0

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. Votes: 0

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. Votes: 0

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. Votes: 0

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. Votes: 0

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. Votes: 0

Love is a word that some entertain. If you find it you have won the game. Votes: 0

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences. Votes: 0

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P. Votes: 0

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives. Votes: 0

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist. Votes: 0

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant Votes: 0

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius Votes: 0

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! Votes: 0

My mission of life is to entertain people; same I get entertain from some others life missions. Votes: 0

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me Votes: 0

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent! Votes: 0

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. Votes: 0

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. Votes: 0

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. Votes: 0

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality. Votes: 0

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good. Votes: 0

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. Votes: 0

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Votes: 0

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. Votes: 0

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? Votes: 0

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. Votes: 0

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. Votes: 0

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain. Votes: 0

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained Votes: 0

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me. Votes: 0

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different. Votes: 0

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer. Votes: 0

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader. Votes: 0

If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it. Votes: 0

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people. Votes: 0

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Votes: 0

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. Votes: 0

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. Votes: 0

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind. Votes: 0

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. Votes: 0

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. Votes: 0

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way." Votes: 0

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way. Votes: 0

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. Votes: 0

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun. Votes: 0

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory) Votes: 0

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. Votes: 0

Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously. Votes: 0

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain. Votes: 0

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. Votes: 0

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself. Votes: 0

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. Votes: 0

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it. Votes: 0

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work. Votes: 0

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Votes: 0

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it Votes: 0

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people. Votes: 0

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it. Votes: 0

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean? Votes: 0

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. Votes: 0

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. Votes: 0

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star. Votes: 0

If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well. Votes: 0

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well. Votes: 0

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. Votes: 0

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. Votes: 0

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. Votes: 0

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. Votes: 0

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea. Votes: 0

The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world. Votes: 0

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. Votes: 0

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? Votes: 0

As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually. Votes: 0

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives. Votes: 0

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career. Votes: 0

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. Votes: 0

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. Votes: 0

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain. Votes: 0

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. Votes: 0

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. Votes: 0

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it. Votes: 0

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. Votes: 0

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer. Votes: 0

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. Votes: 0

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh. Votes: 0

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them. Votes: 0

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain. Votes: 0

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else Votes: 0

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all. Votes: 0

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. Votes: 0

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled. Votes: 0

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. Votes: 0

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level. Votes: 0

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on. Votes: 0

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun. Votes: 0

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles. Votes: 0

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation. Votes: 0

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience. Votes: 0

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. Votes: 0

It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life. Votes: 0

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business. Votes: 0

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand. Votes: 0

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V Votes: 0

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain. Votes: 0

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not. Votes: 0

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. Votes: 0

All I've ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it. Votes: 0

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success. Votes: 0

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university. Votes: 0

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. Votes: 0

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. Votes: 0

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work. Votes: 0

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. Votes: 0

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. Votes: 0

I always loved to cook and entertain but I realized I had the chance to be successful with something that I am passionate about. Votes: 0

The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real. Votes: 0

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? Votes: 0

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people. Votes: 0

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief. Votes: 0

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy. Votes: 0

You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain! Votes: 0

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen. Votes: 0

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. Votes: 0

Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same. Votes: 0

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. Votes: 0

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. Votes: 0

I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years. Votes: 0

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate. Votes: 0

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way. Votes: 0

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. Votes: 0

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing. Votes: 0

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. Votes: 0

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God. Votes: 0

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life. Votes: 0

I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre. Votes: 0

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No. Votes: 0

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. Votes: 0

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. Votes: 0

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available. Votes: 0

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place. Votes: 0

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it. Votes: 0

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It's like network television. I'm your local cable access station. Votes: 0

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important. Votes: 0

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults. Votes: 0

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world. Votes: 0

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. Votes: 0

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. Votes: 0

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain. Votes: 0

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then. Votes: 0

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other. Votes: 0

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments. Votes: 0

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession. Votes: 0

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. Votes: 0

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it. Votes: 0

I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for. Votes: 0

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems. Votes: 0

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth. Votes: 0

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. Votes: 0

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV. Votes: 0

I'm a homebody, but I make people come to me, like, 'Everyone just come over, and we can have fun at my house.' I love to entertain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free! Votes: 0

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination. Votes: 0

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier. Votes: 0

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual." Votes: 0

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing. Votes: 0

I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul. Votes: 0

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate. Votes: 0

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. Votes: 0

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you. Votes: 0

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies. Votes: 0

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh. Votes: 0

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas. Votes: 0

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth. Votes: 0

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader. Votes: 0

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. Votes: 0

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. Votes: 0

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank. Votes: 0

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way. Votes: 0

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that. Votes: 0

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. Votes: 0

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought. Votes: 0

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else. Votes: 0

My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus. Votes: 0

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods. Votes: 0

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear. Votes: 0

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you. Votes: 0

I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced. Votes: 0

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired. Votes: 0

Don't feel pity for those who will feel disappointed because you have scored! You were trained not to entertain a pity party but to excel in a winning game! Votes: 0

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. Votes: 0

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all. Votes: 0

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well. Votes: 0

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh. Votes: 0

You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. Votes: 0

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be. Votes: 0

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all. Votes: 0

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house. Votes: 0

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing. Votes: 0

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope. Votes: 0

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography. Votes: 0

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. Votes: 0

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up. Votes: 0

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Votes: 0

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. Votes: 0

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people. Votes: 0

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them. Votes: 0

New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid. Votes: 0

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy. Votes: 0

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Votes: 0

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. Votes: 0

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel. Votes: 0

I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry. Votes: 0

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Votes: 0

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances. Votes: 0

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half. Votes: 0

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience. Votes: 0

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander Votes: 0

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to. Votes: 0

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates. Votes: 0

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. Votes: 0

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once. Votes: 0

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book. Votes: 0

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. Votes: 0

Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing. Votes: 0

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. Votes: 0

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again. Votes: 0

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better. Votes: 0

Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration. Votes: 0

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials. Votes: 0

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. Votes: 0

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create. Votes: 0

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham. Votes: 0

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people. Votes: 0

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process. Votes: 0

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all. Votes: 0

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am. Votes: 0

We entertain ourselves with worry when we don't know what to trust. When you trust in what remains beyond temporary form, you are trusting in all that you are, as all that is. Votes: 0

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain. Votes: 0

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles. Votes: 0

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else. Votes: 0

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss. Votes: 0

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another. Votes: 0

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing. Votes: 0

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain. Votes: 0

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it. Votes: 0

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly. Votes: 0

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces. Votes: 0

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player. Votes: 0

Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully. Votes: 0

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. Votes: 0

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives. Votes: 0

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing! Votes: 0

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them. Votes: 0

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills. Votes: 0

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV. Votes: 0

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him. Votes: 0