Quotes About Leisure

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

My friends and I will go out for dinner and drinks, but I don't really go dancing or anything like that.

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

I'm more of a window-shopper; if anything catches my eye, I drop in.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it's down to eight.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.

Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

I'm just a golf enthusiast where I enjoy the game so much, and I'm excited.

Movies are about escape.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

In the evenings, I am like any other normal man who spends some time with his friends.

Everybody else does work - I have too much fun.

I have a drink everyday in the evening.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven't read, find out things I haven't yet found out. I want to write things I haven't written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

Man has made himself free, terribly and dizzyingly free. Religion and art are kept alive for the sake of sentimentality, as a conventional politeness toward the past, a benevolent solicitude of leisure's increasingly nervous citizens.

Alcohol is how boring people have fun.

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.