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Quotes About Recreation

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.
~ Neal Stephenson
The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.
~ Neal Stephenson
Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy.
~ Ned Vizzini
And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.
~ Nelson DeMille
Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?
~ Nicholas Sparks
I always have fun on the mountain, so it's always nice to go back out there and do what I love.
~ Chloe Kim
Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
~ Kyle Kinane
For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun.
~ Agnes Bruckner
People should have access to sports, especially in cities like Mumbai, where we have a shortage of space.
~ Sonu Sood
In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.
~ William Shatner
We've fished down in Naples, Florida. We've fished out in Idaho. We've been everywhere fishing, and I think the best part of it is that it brings my family together and it gives us an opportunity to be around each other.
~ Luke Kuechly
We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation, combining it with our two other boasts of reason and humor to produce higher syntheses. To lose this ability is to be deprived of an entire range of faculty. It is assuredly to die more than a little.
~ Christopher Hitchens
When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he's at home, he focuses on software—reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.
~ Tracy Kidder
Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which his is invited and subjected).
~ Umberto Eco
Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.
~ Upton Sinclair
The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the rest. For Cosette laughed now.
~ Victor Hugo
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.
~ Kurt Busch
You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
~ Lake Bell
well-tended lawn. The swings and slide
~ Cathy McDavid
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
~ Cathy McMorris
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
~ Gloria Whelan
What an agreeable toy! A disc on a string, I unwind it, Casting it out of my hand, and it rewinds in a trice.
~ Goethe
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
~ Author Unknown
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on a Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley