Quotes About Recreation

Gentlemen, all the so-called recreational drugs that have come into wide use in the last few decades may be chemical shock devices. I think people are bleaching out their old imprints, and accidentally making new ones, when they think they're just getting high and having fun.

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing' he went on dreamily: 'messing -- in -- boats; messing

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you've lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

We watch television and we play music, but mostly we've found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. They both let go, laughing. "Naw," Plight said," we just play board games.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

slapping a bright yellow ball around a silver pole.

Angélique loved solitude; and it was a real and joyous recreation for her to spend time alone in her bedroom, evening and morning: here she could give free rein to her fantasy, and escape into the world of her daydreams.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Dogfish Head makes a cacao beer called Theobroma that is intended to be a modern recreation of an ancient Olmec recipe.

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that.

On weekends, we slow it down. Friday nights, we bust out a movie, and there is popcorn all over the place.

For me, weekends are more for unwinding than going out on the town.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.