Quotes About Pastime

Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, my God, never. Svatislav Richter, to the second flute at Covent Garden PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT prose style many things—persuasion or mere music, duty or pastime, ornament only, the man himself. It has been left for Americans to think it a problem: the National Problem, the Communications Problem.

Thinking is underrated. I don't think thinking is a popular pastime these days due to the fact there's always something else on offer that you could be doing instead. Maybe people also don't like to do it as much as it's now harder due to noise.

You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Sports are what we watch when we just can't look at another spreadsheet. They're what we use when we need to get away from our lives for a little bit. Every human needs the escape, and sports provides this splendidly.

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.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I play video games; I watch Netflix.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

Nah, I don't play golf.

If I have a day off I will play golf.

I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.