Quotes About Leisure

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Cuando el río es lento y se cuenta con una buena bicicleta o caballo sí es posible bañarse dos (y hasta tres, de acuerdo con las necesidades higiénicas de cada quién) veces en el mismo río.

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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When other sources of leisure become possible, the one use of slavery is past. But all its evils remain, and even grow worse.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

Every time I'm ever in L.A., if I have anytime off - which is rare - I'll go straight to the basketball court and play. That's a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I'm so competitive, so if I'm playing basketball, all I'm thinking about is winning.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

I rarely go out, and I am not interested in golf or anything like that.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.