Quotes About Leisure

I'm a member of the Studio City Driving Range. They have a nice little par-3 AstroTurf course and driving range. You know, I don't belong to a course because I don't golf that much, so it's not worth it for me to join a club.

On my tombstone it will say, 'At last, a day off.'

I always take an iPod and iPod speakers so that when you're in the hotel room you can have it on, or when you're at the beach you can put it on quietly. Music can really set the tone for your holiday.

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.

I spend too much time sitting in an office. So I need to play sports on a regular basis, that's why I play golf and tennis.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

the most slavish thing was to "luxuriate," whereas the most royal thing was to "labor.

The application of time and skill to frivolous things is the hallmark of civilized society

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

I love going to movies.

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.

A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent.

Why aren't you playing?

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.