Quotes About Leisure

that was about as good as it was going to get this side of a hot tub, a good-looking man, and a chocolate milkshake.

Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent. Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.

There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do.

the surest motivation I know, the one I feel deepest within myself, and which, when all is said, done, stripped away - as it is at the moment - seems to be at the truth of the matter for a lot of people, to wit: it's something to do. [...] Why did you bake that banana bread? It was something to do. Why did you make a fort in your living room? Well, it's something to do. Why dress the dog as a cat? It's something to do, isn't it? Fills the time.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I'd say I watch a fair amount of TV, but I'm not a TV addict by any means.

I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.

People want sport that they can go on an afternoon and watch with their kids.

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

I like to buy books at airports sometimes.

I watch movies all day. I am a heavy movie head.

Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.

Anytime you got time to rest, it always helps.

I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.

When a Parisian drops into the country he is cut off from all his usual habits, and soon feels the dragging hours, no matter how attentive his friends may be to him. Therefore, because it is so impossible to prolong in a tete-a-tete conversations that are soon exhausted, the master and mistress of a country-house are apt to say, calmly, "You will be terribly bored here.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

POETS Day, remember! Fox smiled to himself: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. It was all the invitation he needed.

POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.