Quotations about

Entertainment

If you can understand loneliness and go beyond it, then you will find there is no need to escape, no urge to be gratified or entertained, for your mind will know a richness that is incorruptible and cannot be destroyed.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

—Kin Hubbard

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

—Sir Ralph Richardson

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

—Johnny Carson

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

—Martin Kippenberger