Quotes About Leisure

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Reading is my favorite occupation. When I have leisure for it and books to read.

?itanje je moje najdraže zanimanje, kada za to imam slobodnog vremena i knjiga koje bih ?itala.

As Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald, describing the act of letter-writing: "Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Would it always be like this? Endless days of needlework, painting, house chores and skills, teas, Papa and Dominic coming home? What did other people do? They married and raised children, ran houses. Of course the poor worked, and society went to parties, rode in the park or in coaches, and presumably had families as well?

Understand the style of garment that adorns your body, the styles of dwellings in which you spend your leisure hours, the place in which you hunt. Understand what it means to feel the passage of time! Yes, and feel all the pain of seeing things die... Of course. You are made to triumph over time, not to run from it.

Don't be so certain of anything. There are many experiences within the Shaktanis that I wish to share with you. You may read and absorb them at your leisure. But do absorb them, Ramses. Don't leap to rash conclusions. Don't diminish them into a hasty code of morals and laws for beings such as us. Let them embrace you so they may guide you.

Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.

In her skirted pinkswimsuit, her plump shoulders glistening with suntan lotion and her legs lightly dusted with sand, she looked something like a cupcake. She hadn't ventured into the water at all so far, and neither had Red. In fact, Red was wearing his work shoes and dark socks. Evidently this was the year when the two of them were declaring themselves to be officially old.

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 was no point in reading a book, writing a letter, or playing a game, because time was too flaccid ever to proceed to the moment in which the plot would twist, the letter would be sent, or the game would be won.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)

I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.

War is the least productive of men's pastimes, and the most indulgent.

Aristotle noted that leisure was a necessary condition in the politics of a good society.31 Or, as an early twentieth-century populist rephrased it, "Raise less corn and more hell.

He didn't do much of anything except ride that bike and listen to music.

I have a computer, a vibrator, and pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? - Tabitha

Don't you two girls have something better to do, like pick out toe lint? (Acheron)