Entertaining Quotes

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
Michael Jordan

Fun, Bad, Understand

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma Bombeck

Women, Put, Kids

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson

Children, Adult

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing, Read, Half

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke

Love, Truth, Greater

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen

Life, Nothing, Wrong

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Else, Often

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
David Sedaris

Family, Different, Else

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Elvis Presley

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Brian Eno

Good, Art, Yourself

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.
Daniel Radcliffe

Good, Fun, Nothing

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
Ryan Gosling

Feeling, Real, Comedy

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
Bill Hicks

Fun, Highly, Supposed

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel

Change, Job, Important

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill Nye

Find, Sure, Liked

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler

Funny, Truth, Through

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.
Kesha

Makes, Plan, Mouth

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
Kesha

Everything, Friends, Find

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead

Yourself, Others, Personal

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
Jo Brand

Men, Mind, Bear

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Bruce Springsteen

Fun, Past, Songs

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Spike Lee

Music, Good, Great

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube

Music, Sports, Game

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
Jason Reitman

Writing, Why, Fact

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Give, Enough

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.
Jarvis Cocker

Nice, Boring, Place

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
Harvey Weinstein

Family, Care, Black

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
Harvey Weinstein

Life, Afraid, Deal

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
Woody Harrelson

Important, Political, Film

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
Jason Statham

Bored, Away, Walk

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