Quotes About Hobbies

I like to hunt and fish, read and paint and play golf. And I can have a good time doing nothing. And, of course: be with my family.

I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.'

Most people buy shoes and clothing, but I buy a lot of DVDs.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

Well, I swim quite a bit, and ride horseback. That's supposed to be bad for dancers, but I don't care - I like it. And then I collect dolls. I have them from lots of foreign countries.

In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.

Off the pitch I've always believed it is healthy to switch off from football and have completely different interests too.

You deserve to have interests beyond your child.

Connoisseurs need not be aristocratic, but must adopt or reject people and tastes according to a patrician sensibility that ignores the worlds of productivity and profit. Money is esteemed as a means to acquire what they value, but despised as a provider of power, showiness, luxury, over-eating or barbarous hobbies.

In October 1864 the Scottish literary magazine Blackwood's published a satirical article on superfluous Victorian hobbies, especially extreme sports and the fashion for futile risk-taking. It was particularly fierce on the desire to rise above one's station.

You only delay your death. Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch.

If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.