Quotes About Hobby

I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.

Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of control it offers. When engaged in stitching a new pattern, I can't think about anything else. Guilt, misery, longing all flee away, leaving just the beautiful little microcosm of the world in my hands, the flash of the needle, the rainbow colors of the thread, the calming exactitude of the discipline.

Sanditon was a second wife and four children to him -- hardly less dear --- and certainly more engrossing.--- He could talk of it for ever. --- It had indeed the highest claims; --- not only those of birth place, property, and home, --- it was mine, his lottery, his speculation and his hobby horse; his occupation, his hope and his futurity.--- Sanditon, Jane Austen

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

Becoming serious is a grievous fault in hobbyists. It is an axiom that no hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To wish to do it is reason enough. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry - lowers it at once to the ignominious category of an 'exercise' undertaken for health, power, or profit. Lifting dumbbells is not a hobby. It is a confession of subservience, not an assertion of liberty.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

I watch a lot of golf, but I'm only a fair-weather player.

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

I sort of collect watches.

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

I'm quite a dreamy person but I'm also very realistic about my possibilities, so if this was meant to remain a hobby I would have kept it as that. But I feel like music goes in waves and when you get an upward swing, you have to push it as far as you can.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.