Quotes About Leisure

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Dinner and a movie is pretty great.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

Darts is bad.

I don't really have long days very often.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.

My father used to run a shop in Sadar Bazar in old Delhi, and most of my time would go spending days and evenings at the shop, whiling away hours doing nothing.

I like TV on demand and Cheetos.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

I'm trying to know every part of London, to improve my English and enjoy the football. On my days off, I go to different parts of the city.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.

Never having to hoover, cook, clean or do any task I don't want to would be heaven.

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

I'm such a good sleeper that I can have tea any time of day, and I will have no problem taking a nap. I'm a professional napper.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

Besides, there are lots of ways to keep busy in the meantime." That brought her smile back, and my heart lightened. "I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away, and I'll show you.

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving — I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.