Quotes About Pastime

The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it's never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called "leisure"; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

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

it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf...

Baseball is called 'America's Pastime,' but you could argue WWE and wrestling is very similar. We've been around since the carnival days. People want to be entertained. It's obviously two different sports, but everyone appreciates the athleticism of another sport.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

Diletante en el más bello sentido de la palabra, al que en el juego sólo en el juego, el diletto, le causa alegría.

Just to spite himself, because spiting himself, spiting others, spiting the world is the pastime and only patrimony of Landsman and his people.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

Jogging is my idea of nothing to do.

It was an odd pastime for a con man, but I had no real sense of hypocrisy. For the first time in my life I was giving unselfishly of myself, with no thought of any return, and it made me feel good.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

It was many years ago when I started shooting and I took it up as a complete hobby and a pastime.

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

We should all live a life of hobbies. Doing only what gives us pleasure, only what rewards us in secret, private ways.

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

Plus, a woman can only watch so much television and read so many books." She made

I love going to movies.