Not Here To Entertain You Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

Paul Newman

#10. 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

#11. I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Alan Moore

#13. You will look young when you feel young, but to simply feel that you are young will not always cause you to feel young. The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

Christian D. Larson

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

Rohit Sharma

#15. Here we are now, entertain us.

Kurt Cobain

#16. I'm here to entertain.

Pitbull

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Boomer Esiason

#20. It was heartbreaking to know that Lucky was so loyal that he had willingly entered that lion's den to spare Blood. I saw in Blood's eyes day after day that he was a changed man after that. Yet,

Jessica N. Watkins

#21. 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

#22. I figured Henry might smite me if I went through your underwear.

Aimee Carter

#23. 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

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

Sarah Schulman

#25. Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

Ron Kaufman

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

Joanna Newsom

#30. 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

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon