Quotes About Leisure

It's a game. Don't put too much pressure on yourself that you can't have fun.

I have fun outside the game.

You play the game to have fun.

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.

I like to have fun but I like to do it when it's time to have fun. Usually outside of the ring, when the cameras and lights are not around, when it's just my friends, my family and me and we're bowling or at the movies.

I like having a good time.

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of fun because there's no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches.

I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

I'm heavy into 'Max Payne 3'. That's a good one. I like any of the fighting games and all of the 'Tekken' and 'Street Fighter' series.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

Hiking, scuba diving - I just love getting out and doing things.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

There were fewer finer things in life, in Newbury's humble opinion, than spending time perusing the shelves of a good bookshop.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.