Quotes of: Leisure-time Keyword

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Andrew Davies

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Jaime Lerner

...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music and poetry, ... conversation with friends, and ...gratuitous, playful speculation. In Latin, the ultimate ...

Love

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured clas...

How To Have A Lifestyle

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Agnes Grey

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Oliver DeMille

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

Lauren Ambrose

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

John Mackey

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Eddie Murphy

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

George Eastman

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Willie Mays

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

Jeremy Paxman

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cran...

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation