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Quotes About Busy

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.
~ Georgette Mosbacher
I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.
~ Philip K. Dick
Why are there so many people out here?' Boomer asked as we bobbed and weaved roughly forward. 'Christmas shopping.' I explained. 'Already? Isn't it early to returning things?' I really had no sense of how his mind worked.
~ David Levithan
I look around me and see all the problems. I know people aren't living the gospel. I know they are too busy. The world is too loud. The sounds you hear in the hall or not the substance of love and kindness. I hear gossip, I hear spite, I hear fear. I do not hear the gospel. Except inside me, I can feel it there.
~ David Levithan
On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.
~ David Sedaris
This is a busy week with me and lunatics, whom I tend to see as either signs or messengers.
~ David Sedaris
The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark.
~ Dean Koontz
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
~ Casey Kasem
To watch the governing power is a useful career, and, I may add, a very busy one.
~ Honore de Balzac
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
~ Iain M. Banks
For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness.
~ Iain Sinclair
I smelled the stink that only a street whore has after a long, busy night.
~ Iceberg Slim
I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.
~ Idina Menzel
Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?
~ Unknown
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
~ Craig Groeschel
That we can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time, or the peace of mind, or the inclination to see and understand what we could. We're too busy rushing to our graves.
~ Cristina García
They didn't hate Germany or wish her ill. They were too busy and happy to bother.
~ D.E. Stevenson
It was a busy day, washing and ironing and packing, but although I had so much to do I was happy (I felt like a woman who has just been released from prison).
~ D.E. Stevenson
Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.
~ Casey Kasem
In today's society, many people feel stressed. So when they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to relax and experience something nice, to take away some of their anxiety and stress.
~ Li Ziqi
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
~ F. Murray Abraham
Number Four Whitehall was rather like a gristmill, with more work to grind out than wanted weighing, and Napier was booked from now until death with meetings, appointments, and general government arse kissing.
~ Unknown