Pastime Quotes

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.