Quotes About Leisure

Is everybody on the watch to make sure that the novice mistress and the prioress, just to name two, have appropriate leisure? Are they getting proper rest?

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.

a young man whose birth, wealth, and consequent leisure made many habits venial which under other circumstances would have been inexcusable.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

He and Helen spent the rest of the winter there, seeing friends and promoting his cigars. He staged one stunt in which he smoked three cigars at one time.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

The feelings associated with different activities suggest that another way to improve experience is to switch time from passive leisure, such as TV watching, to more active forms of leisure, including socializing and exercise.

Of course, not all slow thinking requires that form of intense concentration and effortful computation—I did the best thinking of my life on leisurely walks with Amos.

I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.

La lettura non ha niente a che fare con l'organizzazione del tempo sociale. La lettura è, come l'amore, un modo di essere. La questione non è di sapere se ho o non ho tempo per leggere (tempo che nessuno, d'altronde, mi darà), ma se mi concedo o no la gioia di essere lettore.

A questão não é saber se tenho tempo para ler, mas se ofereço a mim próprio, ou não, a felicidade de ser leitor.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?

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Leisure' as a distinct non-work time, whether in the form of the holiday, weekend, or evening, was a result of the disciplined and bounded work time created by capitalist production.