Quotes About Pastime

They remembered volleyball as a laid back backyard barbecue pastime, or a gym requirement. They had no idea how fierce and cool the sport had become, how girls had taken it over.

Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But

Watch TV or something. That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the or something part.

Sweet wine from Spain and gossip from France; the sun in the windows dimmed, sorrowed prettily as the day declined, until the candles' light was mirrored in the glass. Their dabbling flames were like guesses at a feeling, the hearth's fire like the feeling itself. It was a beautiful pastime she had missed; hours that had stepped light-footed on Emilia's memory and passed on.

I love walking. Walking might be my favorite pastime. It's one of the reasons I moved to the pedestrian paradise that is NYC. It's hiking that I try to avoid.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

If I had to choose and had one week's holiday, I stay at home. But if I am at home and have nothing to do and have a choice, then I go rallying.

I'm not really a gamer.

One still works, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse

Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been elevated to the status of a national pastime.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

Schadenfreude, delighting in the misfortune of others. I often wonder why there is no equivalent term in English. There should be, considering it's a great American pastime.

A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.