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"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." »Rita Mae Brown
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." »Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment." »Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set." »Harriet Van Horne.
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"What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment." »Michael K. Hooker
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." »W. H. Auden
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"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." »T.S. Eliot
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere." »Voltaire
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"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." »Maya Angelou
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"Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day." »Carmen Electra
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"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be." »Lao Tzu
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"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow
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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland
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"I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center." »Stephen Spender
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." »Oprah Winfrey
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern
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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." »E. M. Cioran
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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"With Epcot center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Tom Daschle
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"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." »Bernard Bailey
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"Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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