Quotes about Entertainment

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.