Blaise Pascal Quotes

Sports is the toy department of human life.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Sports is entertainment.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I hate getting bored.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.