Entertainment Quotes - Page 14

• But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

  Neil Gaiman

  Communication, School, Ideas

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.13, HarperCollins

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Feel Good, Cinema

  13 Copy quote

• Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Television, Would Be, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  Gary Lineker

  Teacher, Nurse, Tree

  "They think it's all overpaid: Gary Lineker blasts footballers' big wages". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Vanity, Knowing

  80 Copy quote

• Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Rocks, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Difficult, Art Is

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

  Larry Wall

  People, Values

  4 Copy quote

• You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

  Michael Medved

  Sex, Struggle, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Thinking, Ideas, Style

  57 Copy quote

• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Forgotten, Producers, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Target, Shooting, Enjoy

  4 Copy quote

• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

  13 Copy quote

• Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

  George Harrison

  Art, Media, Gossip

  Song: Wreck Of The Hesperus, Album: Cloud Nine

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

  John Tesh

  Tonight, Television, Cleanliness

  5 Copy quote

• The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Sports, Men, Rocks

  "Fictional character: The Rock". "Fully Loaded", www.imdb.com. 1999.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mean, Important, Providing

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on a daily basis. I travel with him and from the moment he gets up to the moment he goes to bed it's all WWE, all sports entertainment. He keeps his body in shape and he is a true champion in the ring and out. He's a great representative of the company and I'm learning a lot from him, not only on TV but outside as well.

  Alex Riley

  Sports, Jobs, Wwe

  4 Copy quote

• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

  17 Copy quote

• I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, Fashion, Art

  63 Copy quote

• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

  4 Copy quote