Quotes About Pastime

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

I don't like bowling that much. Every now and then, it's fine.

It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.

But myth making, as it turns out, is not the sole prerogative of religion. It is also a very active secular and academic pastime—and a human one as well; perhaps it is some kind of human necessity.

Allan decided he needed a little recreation. Something light hearted and non-committal. A quickie.

Work, whiskey, and cards were life.

War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.

He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him—as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.

Golf is a good time, valued time.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

In the past, I've told people to get me DVDs: like, the box sets of entire series. When you're overseas and there isn't much else to do, they can be great.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.