Quotes About Leisure

Aquí quiere vivir por sí misma, sin estorbos; no ser otra cosa sino la mujer joven, desmesuradamente adulada y adorada, que, en medio de mil superfluas ocupaciones, se olvida de todo, del reino, del esposo, de la corte, del tiempo, y a veces -y éstos son acaso sus minutos más dichosos- hasta de sí misma. Con Trianón, este espíritu desocupado ha encontrado por fin una ocupación, un juego, que se renueva constantemente.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Bosch remembered that they had driven out to Malibu to eat breakfast at a place called Marmalade and afterward had watched the surfers at a nearby beach.

hang out on the surf beaches even though I didn't know how to surf.

Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week.

Según decían, tenían que aprovechar incluso los ratos libres, con lo que tenían que conseguir como fuera y a toda prisa diversión y relajación.

Relaxed, I lit a spliff.

Three flutes of champagne in the early afternoon anchored by the weight of nine oysters.

how economists seem to view the question of work and leisure: as antithetical terms that neatly line up with the equally antithetical categories of production and consumption. But perhaps that view says more about them, and consumer capitalism, than it does about us. For one of the most interesting things about cooking today—optional cooking—is how it confounds the rigid categories of work and leisure, of production and consumption.

Lawns are a form of television.

I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.

I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing.

I sing just for fun.

Singapore has everything under one roof. There is something for everyone, right from my kids to my husband.

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

I feel like part of the reason I play basketball so much is it just feels good. In the summer I play every single day.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers.

If I had a free afternoon, I would play music, sit in my backyard, and drink coffee.

I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.