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.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
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.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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...
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
