Quotes About Leisure

Summer. That long lovely world of slow days and late nights, warm air and friendly sun.

Is this true? Those who had world' enough, that is, those engaged in a demanding daily vocation, were short of time while those without regular obligations had more than sufficient time, but no world?

Hi, Judy!" she called to the little girl, who was playing in the yard with a midget badminton set.

With their purchases in boxes the girls strolled down the street to a Spanish restaurant. Here they ate a delicious lunch of tacos and spicy chili. For dessert they had iced fresh fruit. Bess sighed. "Umm, that was super." Afterward, they walked to a wide street beside a park where an outdoor painting exhibition was being held. The group stopped now and then to admire and compliment the artists who sat beside their work.

A generation ago, fun wasn't a deciding factor when we talked about career choices. Jobs aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to bring home the bacon. Fun is what you do on your off days. Fun happens in the evenings and weekends. But if your job isn't fun, as we've come to realize, you don't do a fantastic job at it.

I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

I had always thought that meditation was for ladies who lunch and have nothing better to do but indulge in whatever the latest fad may be.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

Well, Memphis isn't the most active city, but we find ways to have fun, whether it's going bowling, maybe to the movies, going out to eat. We eat a lot here because there's a lot of good food.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

On most holidays, you'll find me in Mexico. Actually, on most holidays you won't find me. I'm at a beach, and it's wonderful.

When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

The thinking person who is idle appears as the greatest threat to those for whom idleness means simply doing nothing, who actually do nothing when they are idle.

She herself had never had enough money and never enough time and hadn't even been unhappy once, in contrast to those she called refined gentlemen, who always had enough money and enough time and constantly talked about their unhappiness. She