Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 1. Antonio reminds Sebastian – mourning a sister he thinks has drowned – that his sad story makes for bad entertainment.
Academic scientists aren’t generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can’t expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. – Greg Graffin
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty… pretty British in our entertainment leads. – Graeme Murphy
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there. – Howard Schultz
Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment. – Henry Rollins
I’ve been chased. I’ve been pushed. I’ve been screamed at. I’ve been verbally abused. I’ve been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment. – Howie Mandel
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised. – Howard Jacobson
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it’s sad and it’s sick… and it’s profitable. – Heather Donahue
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it. – Greg Fitzsimmons
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. – Harriet Van Horne
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. – Gary L. Francione
We’re not doing brain surgery. We’re not saving lives… Even if you’re doing Shakespeare, it’s still entertainment. We’re just entertaining people. We’re just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads. – Julia Stiles
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It’s fairly cheap entertainment; it’s classic escapism. – John Lasseter
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ‘read,’ commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself. – Joseph Brodsky
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage. – Ivor Novello
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios. – Jamais Cascio
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
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. – Jon Oringer
If entertainment years were dog years, man, I’d be like Gandhi. I’d be, like, 250 years old. – Justin Timberlake
Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there. – Israel Broussard
I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress. – India de Beaufort
I come from L.A. where there’s a sense of show. But that’s not a bad word in my mind. We say art ‘show,’ don’t we? ‘Show’ implies entertainment. – James Turrell
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there. – Israel Broussard
