Quotes About Leisure

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

all sorts of other luxuries we hadn't been used to in England. The pool was cleaned by a guy called

Time softened on Sundays; it stretched itself out in vast rubbery lengths, and by two o'clock, there was more of it than would ever be needed for anything. There

Il s'agissait d'user le temps, de tromper l'ennui par toutes sortes d'activités sans réelle importance, dont la lecture.

You deserve a break today.

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.

I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.

I've always done magic as a hobby. I've done it professionally, too.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

I never watch anything live, I record all my programmes and have a real binge on a Friday night and watch them all.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

I think I'm going to be a juggler when I retire from the promotion business one day.

If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

Without the burdens and problems associated with fame and fortune, Lieh-tzu could live leisurely and be free to do what he liked and go where he wanted. To Lieh-tzu, being an unknown citizen was better than being a person of power and responsibility. In a time when politicians played games of intrigue, Lieh-tzu felt it was better to remain silent and be truthful to oneself.

With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows , was his favourite book.

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

It was as though a deed of conveyance of her narrow loins had been drawn and sealed. I was making my first entry as the freeholder of a property I would enjoy and develop at leisure.

The perfect leisure which those people alone enjoy who are untroubled by the speculative or artistic itch.

I'm tres old and tres bored, Tom, said Amory one day, stretching himself at ease in the comfortable window-seat. He always felt most natural in a recumbent position.

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.