Quotes About Pastime

When I do pack it in, there's plenty for me to do down in Cornwall. There are some decent local teams, like Bodmin, that I'd like to go and watch.

I like collecting chickens.

A man should have a hobby. It keeps him out of trouble. -Madeleine Pilaster

The children and some of the adults played chess and nine-men's-morris to while away the evening

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

It appears to me that not only what is done by honourable and virtuous men in the serious transactions of life is worthy of record, but also what they do in their hours of amusement.

I am a knitting fool. It's a quiet pastime, and a productive one. It enables one to join in the conversation or switch one's brain off, according to the interest or the excruciating dullness of what is being discussed. And the product does keep people warm and comfortable.

I am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don't want to get addicted.

I just don't enjoy poker that much.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.

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

We watch television and we play music, but mostly we've found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. They both let go, laughing. "Naw," Plight said," we just play board games.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

If this person is a blackmailer, El, I want you to have nothing more to do with it. Blackmailers are dangerous." Her brows rose. "You've had dealings with them before, have you?" Too bloody many times. "Attempting to blackmail the Mackenzie family is a popular pastime," Hart said.

Besides, there are lots of ways to keep busy in the meantime." That brought her smile back, and my heart lightened. "I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away, and I'll show you.

Reading is the solitary essential pastime to which all summer houses are peculiarly dedicated. I became a foreigner. For myself, that is what a writer is - a man living on the other side of a frontier.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.