entertainment

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

It is pretty clear from Facebook we can enjoy entertaining each other as much as we enjoy surfing the experts' expressions.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy of giving the people what they wanted, which Franco lived by, had paid dividends.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Content_ ranges anywhere from the logo on a can of soup, dogs dancing on youtube, to the coding of an app:it__ confusing!

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

The research proves what gamers already know: within the limits of our own endurance, we would rather work hard than be entertained. Perhaps that__ why gamers spend less time watching television than anyone else on the planet.

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.