Quotes About Hobbies

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

What would people be surprised to know about me? That I love cooking and chopping wood for the heating system in my house.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

One day you retire, and you get a social life.

Do something completely unrelated to your goals, and feel good about it. We all need rest, recreation, and a reminder that there is more to life than pursuing our goals.

remind yourself that you are a very fulfilled person—stable, functional, and happy—with a career, friends, and hobbies, and that you are perfectly capable of living with or without him. You are not an empty vessel waiting for him to fill you up, support you, or give you a life. You are alive and enthusiastic, engaged in work and in living fully on your own.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.

After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.

Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "How in a free country such as this, can we ban video games and golf, yet continue to permit stamp collecting?"

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.

You can't eat recreation.

I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.