Quotes About Leisure

My idea of a perfect day is a frozen custard at Shake Shack and a walk in the park. (Followed by a Lactaid.) My idea of a perfect night is a good play and dinner at Orso. (But no garlic, or I won't be able to sleep.) The other day I found a bakery that bakes my favorite childhood cake, and it was everything I remembered: it made my week.

Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.

pot-boiling thriller in a steamy bubble bath, but

Women curl up with books, guys stretch out

where two men played pool and a woman sat at a

It wasn't really a walk, she thought as she wound through rosebushes and the heavy scent of gardenia. It was more of a meander. No hurry, no destination, no problems.

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

Saying you like Piano Man doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

Read with joy!

Saturdays in Sag Harbor, I liked to lie in bed listening to the weekend rev itself up.

Mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate between the two extremities of distress and boredom. ~Schopenhauer. In actual fact, boredom is now causing more problems to solve that distress. And these problems are growing increasingly crucial, for progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker. The pity of it is that many of these will not know what to do with all their newly acquired free time.

progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker.

And these problems are growing increasingly crucial, for progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker. The pity of it is that many of these will not know what to do with all their newly acquired free time.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.

but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.

Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

I Read, I Smoke, I Admire.