Quotes About Leisure

I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Success to him meant having the time to do nothing.

to wander among the neat rows of boutiques.

some quality time with a good book. Trying to

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

To travel is to shop.

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

You do not always have to be producing, creating, harvesting. Learn to be idle. Learn to rest.

There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most, so what else is there to do but drink?

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

busman's holiday

everything tastes better in a margarita glass.

And just what is the most precious thing in life that riches can supply? Easy. For me, it's Time. Time. Time to read and write poetry if I want to. Or to write a book if it takes my fancy. Time to travel on the slightest whim, to walk in the woods, to think, to commission art, to read, to drink, to hang out with friends and loved ones … to do just about anything really, as long as it does not involve day after grinding day making money in an office or a factory for somebody else.

Regarde les lions: ils chassent quand ils ont faim, bon, mais le reste du temps ils dorment, ils bâillent, ils regardent les couchers de soleil et les cameramen du National Geographic, et ils n'ont pas l'air de s'ennuyer.

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.