Quotes with entertain

  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
  • Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
  • 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.
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  • John Ruskin Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barbra Streisand 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.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Caroline Rhea As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Mark van Doren Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
    Mark van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Francis Bacon Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Alanis Morissette I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Walt Disney I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ben Affleck 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.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Abigail Adams 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.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Jeremy Taylor If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Epictetus Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bobby McFerrin 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.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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