Subject: Entertainment (Page 6)

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

Karaoke: Japanese for “Drunk with Microphone.”

I don’t enjoy playing video golf because there’s nothing to throw.

American professional golfer

A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

Quartet: Four men, all of whom think that the other three can’t sing.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old…. I haven’t seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You might be a redneck if… your stereo speakers used to belong to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

If it's a good script I'll do it; and if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Dancing with her was like moving a piano.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist

Play us a medley of your hit.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Television: A medium; so called because it is neither rare nor well done.

(1919 – 1962) American comedian, actor & writer

Real country music is lying on the floor with that bottle of Jack Daniel's by your side 'cause a woman's gone and walked across your heart like a Samoan man in golf shoes.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I only know two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.

(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author