Quotes About Pastimes

Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity -- of schedules and pastimes ad the weather -- became their principal consolation.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Isn't it curious how in so many of our pastimes and hobbies we play at supplying one or another of our fundamentally creauturely needs—for food, shelter, even clothing?

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 think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

I learned very quickly there's not a lot to do in South Florida when you can't golf or fish.

Golf and dating don't mix.

I don't play golf and I don't collect stamps. I don't ride horses. I don't go mountain hiking, I don't go star gazing. I don't do any of that.

I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

Apart from exercising, reading and watching movies also keep me occupied.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.