536 Quotes About Entertainment

Most readers have low standards. All they demand from a book is entertainment.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

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

On solemn festivals, Julian, who felt and professed an unfashionable dislike to these frivolous amusements, condescended to appear in the Circus; and, after bestowing a careless glance on five or six of the races, he hastily withdrew with the impatience of a philosopher, who considered every moment as lost that was not devoted to the advantage of the public or the improvement of his own mind.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

Content” ranges anywhere from the logo on a can of soup, dogs dancing on youtube, to the coding of an app:it’s confusing!

Time crawls when you are bored; walks when you are occupied; runs when you are busy; but flies when you are having fun.