Quotes About Leisure

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

There'll be a demand for campgrounds and hiking trails.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality... He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not for doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance!

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.