Quotes of: Leisure-time Keyword

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

Twice Upon a Time

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The Time Traveler's Wife

The only thing we can do is to say ‘Fuck it’ over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.

The Time Traveler's Wife

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

This is Where I Leave You

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Vanishing Acts

No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.

Voice of Innocence

Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

By Way of Accident

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

Why Time Begins on Opening Day

[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Why Time Begins on Opening Day

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

Why We Broke Up

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

My phone rang a long time, so I answered. How long? Eight feet long. My last relationship was half that long. I should be taller in love.

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