Quotes About Pastimes

I don't watch rugby.

The manner of employing the leisure time is always an index of a people's culture. The Tamils of old had their own pastimes which reveal at once their rustic simplicity and their notable refinement (Pillay 1969: 326-327)

Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing...The boxing match is the very image, the more terrifying for being so stylized, of mankind's collective aggression; its ongoing historical madness.

The patient was able to get about, visit acquaintances, do light work about the house, flowers and knitting and reading and so on, and to drive about the place—in fact, most of the things that old ladies do occupy their time with.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

Brother Bear was a bear of many interests. He enjoyed sports such

If you like playing basketball, you play basketball. If you like playing golf, you play golf.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.

Before the war few pastimes afforded me greater pleasure than wandering through the city, ending up somewhere strange. But now, having been twice officially lost—lost as in waylaid, misplaced, unreachable, doomed, lost as in the Lost Battalion—I find the appeal is itself somewhat lost to me.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here i am in the forest, quite content

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

Cadsuane had learned long ago to stop questioning the odd penchants of people with too much free time.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.

I like to play snooker, golf as well.