Entertaining Quotes - Page 16

• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

  Al Oerter

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

  Olivia Wilde

  Bad Ass, Men, Salt

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• When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

  Pablo Picasso

  Tired, Relax, Doing Nothing

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• When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

  Archibald Geikie

  Notebook, Holiday, Autumn

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9

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• If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

  Tony Jarrett

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Elbows, Panic, Miles

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.176, Baen Books

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• A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Moving, Technology, Faithful

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• [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

  Neil Postman

  Television, Matter, Entertainment

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• 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, Bears

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  Umberto Eco

  Educational, Black And White, Years

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• I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

  Selma Blair

  Hopeful, Sides, Depressive

  "Selma Blair interview: 'I could be living in a castle right now, with Tom Cruise'". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Home, Cooking, Done

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• 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

  Art, People, Feel Good

  "When Brian Eno met Ha-Joon Chang". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2012.

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• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  Nathan Fillion

  Real, Thinking, Blood

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

  William Gibson

  Fabulous, Favorites Things, Novelty

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Doubt, Together

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• I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

  Mel Brooks

  Admirer, My Own, Knows

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• I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Real, Fake, Hip Hop

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• The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Art, Depth, Purpose

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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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• 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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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

  Kevin Nealon

  Jobs, Unique, Grew Up

  "A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. August 1, 2012.

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• What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Watches, Down And

  "Rosie O'Donnell: 'My Job Is to Be Funny'" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 29, 2011.

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