Entertaining Quotes - Page 10

• It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, People, Personality

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

  Damien Fahey

  Funny, Real, Technology

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2012

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• Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Solitude, Made, Capacity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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• 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.

  Owen Hart

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

  Alma Alexander

  Stories, Know How, Knows

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• People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Attention, Infinite

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• Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

  David Bianculli

  Fun, Ink, World

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• I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.

  Andrew Garfield

  Believe, Inspire, I Believe

  "Lions For Lambs - Andrew Garfield interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

  Stephen J. Cannell

  Television, Firsts, Online

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• How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

  Howard W. Hunter

  Names, Rumor, Stories

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• All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

  Sterling W Sill

  Temptation

  "That ye might have life".

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• If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Temptation, Ifs

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• I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

  Richard Russo

  Men, People, Want

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.12, Atlantic Books

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• I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.
  
  When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Connections, Needs

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• What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Opportunity, Holy Grail, Relevant

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• Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

  Pippa Middleton

  Stressful, Scales

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• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  Will Shortz

  Real, Book, Historical

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• Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

  Philip Treacy

  Hats, Illusion, Gaga

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• Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Art, Attitude, Silent

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• Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

  Adrienne Mayor

  Queens, Memories, Past

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• A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intelligent, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1988). “Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)”, Berg Publishers

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• Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Character, Details, Doe

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