“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.” ThinkingTryingLongUseCertainPleasureMistakeAchieveComfortProfoundEntertainmentHappyLastingCheerBeing HappyDeep ThoughtTrue HappinessCheer UpLong LastingProxy Author:Simon Pegg
“I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.” MenMindPleasureSourceMajorsIntellectualInstrumentsEntertainment Author:Marya Mannes
“Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.” HelpingProblemImaginationPleasureConversationIncreaseTheaterEntertainmentSolveAlcoholConcertsSparksMisunderstandingEraseGet AheadEducation And KnowledgeThose You LoveGood Conversation Author:Dorothy Sarnoff
“Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.” WayMayLongDoeProblemPleasureViolenceRiskElementsRegardEntertainmentAppetiteAcceptableViewersExposureTolerableVictimizationDealing With Problems Author:Sissela Bok
“All reading for pleasure is entertainment.” ReadingPleasureEntertainmentReading For Pleasure Author:Raymond Chandler
“Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.” PeopleWorldPainPoliticalPleasureLeaderTelevisionEntertainmentConfusedPolitical Leaders Author:P. J. O'Rourke