Entretaining Quotes

#1. Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.

William Kamkwamba

#2. And the earth itself. It smells different in different places. But its loveliest fragrance is known only when it receives a shower of rain. and then the scent of the wet earth rises as though it would give something beautiful back to the clouds. A blend of all the fragrant things that grow upon it.

Ruskin Bond

#3. The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house.
[The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

George Herbert

#4. Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Voltaire

#5. Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Irving Thalberg

#6. In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#7. Subsistence, I am happy to report, is not much of a problem for me these days either. I could probably subsist for a decade or more on the food energy I have thriftily wrapped around various parts of my body.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#8. My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Isadora Duncan

#9. He gave me a look that would have made cancer apologize, then ran like hell.

David Wong

#10. I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

Peter Watts

#12. The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce

Imam Ali

#13. You pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

Jean Little

#14. I'm bidin' my time,
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Ira Gershwin