Quotes About Pastime

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Newlyn does not look like the Cornish towns on either side: Penzance and Mousehole. Those are resort towns where British vacationers practice that peculiarly British pastime of strolling the beaches and walkways, bundled in sweaters and mufflers. But Newlyn is a fishing town - or, increasingly, an out-of-work fishing town.

When in "this place," though, a visit to the sauna is all but mandatory. Both a Finnish invention and something of a national pastime, the sauna is "the number one thing people tell you to do around here." In Cold War times, it was a way to ensure that confidential conversations remained so, since it's impossible to wire a nude politician or secret operative

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

I play the game for the game's own sake

All I do is go to the movies.

A hobby is a happy medium between a passion and a monomania.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

You can't eat recreation.