Quotes About Recreation

I grew up in bowling alleys.

I have several guns. I have several dirt bikes and ATVs, good old country-boy things.

Although men doubtless continued to punch each other for fun and bragging rights, the sport as such didn't formally resurface until the late seventeenth century, in Great Britain.

Bowling is sex. Bowling is a symbolic form of intercourse, except you don't have to bother about the feelings of some other person. Bowling is sex without guilt. Bowling is what people have wanted down through all the millennia: sex without the slightest responsibility. It's the very distillation of the essence of sex.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm just wondering if my cooler's got enough ice to make it through the day.

A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

Zach Woods loves to go jet-skiing. That's a real thing in his real life. He's obsessed with it.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I work hard to get the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.

I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

We'd go to the crappiest mountain because they had the cheapest lift tickets.

Growing up in New Jersey, teen clubs were your life. I'm not kidding! That was it. I was literally tied up five days a week with teen clubs; my parents would drop me off. Like, I didn't even drive.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.