Subject: Entertainment (Page 30)

Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

(1903 – 1970) Russian artist
Art Entertainment

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

Definitions Entertainment Music Things

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

(David John Moore Cornwell) (1931 – ) British author
Books Communication Entertainment Film

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor
Art Entertainment

Actress Claudette Colbert: I knew these lines backwards last night.

Coward: And that’s just the way you’re saying them this morning.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Acting Communication Entertainment Speech

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence; they got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it?

(1946 – ) American comedian
Entertainment Television

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress
Acting Entertainment

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

(1924 – 1984) American author
Entertainment Life Reading/Writing

The Complete Law and Order boxed set is now available for only $300; the perfect gift for someone unaware of the existence of USA Network.

American comedian
Entertainment Television

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Acting Entertainment Misspokements

After seeing the opera Tosca, Yogi remarked, “I really liked it, even the music was nice”

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Music Yogi-isms

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist
Entertainment Insults Music

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Memory Misspokements Music

I don't like sex on television… I keep falling off.


Sex Television

Chozen is a truly bizarre blend of programming as it mixes prison and rap culture with Revenge of the Nerds.

film reviewer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Television

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian
Characteristics Emotions Entertainment

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

Insults Music

He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.

(1925 – 2005) television host
Beliefs Entertainment Insults Opinion People

I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up… and for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.

American comedian
Entertainment Television

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter
Age Entertainment Music