Quotes About Pastime

I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further in your customary state of self-neglect, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are just fine as you are! Hear the voice from the stone, do not resist the call to get in shape! Seize the chance to train with a god!

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

I really love playing badminton and doing crosswords.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

The NFL is not a national pastime. It's a national addiction.

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

It came like a natural thing for me, and I liked it. That's how my amateur career started. But again, no interest in a future in boxing. I just thought it was like a little pastime, something to do.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Outside of basketball, I really love to bowl.

I don't really watch much boxing.

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.

I really like going to see movies. I know that's super boring but it's true!

I'd rather spend my Sunday doing just about anything other than watching a football game - unless it's the Super Bowl.

Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.

They were dining-saloon stewards, indulging in the time-honored pastime of all stewards off duty--they were gossiping about their passengers." 

Pray don't allow the shock of it all to confuse you, she said. Popular resurrections are a tedious pastime of Francis's.

I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.

I love pinball.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

I channel surf like probably most people.

Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.