Not Here To Entertain Quotes

#1. Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.

Smith Wigglesworth

#2. Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

Richard Griffiths

#3. The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

Damien Rice

#4. I am not here to entertain straight people.

Sarah Schulman

#5. I'm here to entertain.

Pitbull

#6. All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

#7. There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Michelle Williams

#8. Here we are now, entertain us.

Kurt Cobain

#9. It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd.

Rohit Sharma

#10. You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

Richelle Mead

#11. As you will be aware, gentlemen, I have made it my life's work to entertain the working classes, enrage the middle classes, and fascinate the aristocracy - but I do believe I've just met my match. Accrington 'Arry here is in a class of his own, beyond my reach.

Gyles Brandreth

#12. Didn't you see what it was standing on?" "The floor?" Harry suggested. "I wasn't looking at its feet, I was too busy with its heads.

J.K. Rowling

#13. I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

Corey Taylor

#14. With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.

Kurt Cobain

#15. Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.

William Shakespeare

#16. Human beings are not made to take shortcuts, ... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

David Rotenberg

#17. I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

David Lee Roth

#18. I hastened, ... , back to London, ... ; for here you have the advantage of solitude without its disadvantage, since you may be alone and in company at the same time; and while you walk or sit unobserved, noise, hurry, and a constant succession of objects entertain the mind,

Henry Fielding

#19. Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Julia Cameron

#20. The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.

Iris Murdoch

#21. We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

Boomer Esiason

#22. Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

Margaret Kennedy

#23. Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

Lewis Thompson Preston

#24. The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

#25. You fellows are amazing,' the sweaty cook roared over the stoves. 'Everything happens to you only. Each time you come here, you have a new adventure story to entertain us

Rohinton Mistry

#26. Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

Alexandra Adornetto

#27. People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?

Jeff Chang

#28. Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they're just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

Zia Haider Rahman

#29. The river was the Hudson. There were carp in there and we saw them. They were as big as atomic submarines. We saw waterfalls, too, streams jumping off cliffs into the valley of the Delaware.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#30. You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God:

Frederick Lenz