Quotes About Leisure

back up and if you enjoy yourself." "I'm having a wonderful time!" She tried to plot

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.

People are forced by their better judgment to ask very basic questions: Is it possible, how is it possible, to have more meaning and honor in work? to put wealth to some real use? to have a high standard of living of whose quality we are not ashamed? to get social justice for those who have been shamefully left out? to have a use of leisure that is not a dismaying waste of a hundred million adults?

An abundance of leisure uninformed by a philosophy of life, substantial intellectual resources, or religious belief of some kind may give rise to escapism, meaningless routines, or rushing around. It seems that human beings are not programmed to enjoy unlimited amounts of leisure without unease and difficulty.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

and the relief of being able to walk around without having to search for a parking place added to the pleasure of strolling

Visitors from Tucson and beyond would pop over for a break from the routine—an opportunity to buy clay pots or sombreros, drink a world-class margarita

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

They feed you, like, eight times a day, which is why cruise people always look like hairless water buffalo wearing sneakers.

Simply by eliminating description, the screenwriter can work his way through the entire plot in a single morning, leaving the afternoon free for screenwriter leisure activities such as drugs.

All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.