Best 98 quotes in «entertaining quotes» category

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

The true test of our worldview is what we find entertaining.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Emily immediately saw a woman’s purse on the table, then saw the bed was messed up and slept in, as well. Her emotions were now off the charts, and the ground on which she was standing on fell out. No, Ford, no, she thought to herself. They both opened the bathroom door. “Aw, man! Dude! Call 911!” Mark said loudly, as Emily gasped.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot...

Entertaining is about sharing generously and creating an atmosphere where friends feel welcome.

Entertaining doesn’t need to be a difficult or daunting process. Throwing an unforgettable party doesn’t require a ton of time or money; it just requires a little thought, creativity, and heart.

Allow food and drink to become the catalyst for sparkling conversation, the exchange of ideas, and memories in the making

As I reflect on all my friends and colleagues in my life on this special occasion... Mother is only half the word that immediately comes to mind.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Entertaining is as unique and personal as dressing oneself.

Entertaining shouldn’t be about showing off. It’s all about making people feel comfortable and setting a stage for everyone to have a good time, make new friends, and have stimulating conversations. You want to leave a party thinking: If I hadn’t gone to that, I never would have met this wonderful person, or had that delicious meal, or felt that sense of camaraderie with the people I met at the dessert table. You don’t want anyone looking at the clock, thinking, When can I leave?

First, no qualms. Not the thinnest sliver of misgiving about the value of his work. He was able to feel that the most important job in the world was putting over Monsoon. In the second place, he was as uninhibited as a performing seal. He never questioned his right to monopolize conversations or his ability to do it entertainingly. And then there was his colossal lack of perspective. This was one of his most valuable gifts, for perspective doesn't always pay. It can slow you down.

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

Honestly—and maybe some of you can relate to this—I just can’t stand the pressure of being responsible for hosting a memorable (and not in a bad way) evening. Martha Stewart, bless her heart, intimidates me. That level of entertaining is so over my head: What do you mean, you didn’t dig up your own potatoes for this dish? You didn’t make the doilies? The plates didn’t just come out of a kiln? I love Martha, but it gets ridiculous.

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining...

I don’t particularly like entertaining. I know I should, but I just don’t.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity cooking and that is just not my field at all. The last time we had 12 for a sit-down dinner and I did all the cooking, and Paul and I did all the setting up, serving, and washing up afterwards, I said never again. I’ll do a buffet, but I don’t consider that civilized dining; it is feeding, and I like to sit down at a well-set table.

I love cooking. I cook for myself every day. I like the ceremony of it. It takes me into a different zone. I make a lot of pasta. But cooking for a crowd of five or ten or, heaven forbid, twenty? No, thank you. I don’t like feeling like a slave to the care and feeding of my guests.

In exploring the worlds cultures, few means are as powerful and unfailingly unifying as food.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

President Trump is the most ‘entertaining’ president.

...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it must bore people to death; and if it is "entertaining," it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that "the good" has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.)

... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

When a guest sits down there should be something beautiful and inspiring to look at.

Whenever you entertain the Bunch, Always plan to have a punch.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Aside from the nagging, he's the most entertaining hallucination I've ever had.

Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.

Spooky Twisties: All things Spooky, here begin They lay and wait, in books within. They sometimes pass, in open space. Then leave and go, without a trace. Some appear on the spot. Some we know, others not. Sometimes we are afraid to say, “leave us now”, or beg to stay. At times they leave a sign beyond, A gentle breeze, or note from song. Be not afraid, to read story’s close. For in the dark, your spirit goes.

The essence of great entertaining: a seemingly effortless combination of authentic food and imagination presented with a personal touch and enjoyed in good company.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

There is nothing more magical than gathering an interesting group of people and enjoying good food in the expansive beauty of nature.

These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.

When entertaining a party of six or more always use place cards. When guests know where they are sitting it puts them at ease immediately and they are assured you have given thoughtful consideration as to who their dinner partner will be.