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Tag Name "Entertained" (148)

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There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
John Lukacs
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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger
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I think the audience likes to be entertained.
Bray Wyatt
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We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.
Rashida Jones
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
Henry David Thoreau
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Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.
Harriet Martineau
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
George Washington
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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Emily Watson
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It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.
Bruce H. Lipton
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You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.
Parker J. Palmer
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If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
Thom Yorke
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I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.
Amy Sedaris
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That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.
Joe Sedelmaier
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In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers will be entertained and inspired by Spirit Fighter. I heartily recommend it.
Robert Whitlow
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Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.
Aasif Mandvi
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
Harold Nicholas
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I want my audience to say, Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say. I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
Michael Pitt
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[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.
Charlton Heston
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John Lasseter
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I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way. So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.
Veena Sud
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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
Herman Melville
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At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
Brett Ratner
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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