Pastime Quotes
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I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
— James Patterson
Merriment seemed to be a favorite pastime in this country, where the citizenry take the concept of happiness very seriously.
— Eric Dinerstein
My favorite pastime is to write.
— Danny Bonaduce
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
— James Reston Jr.
Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.
— Rebecca Solnit
Being offended has replaced baseball as our greatest national pastime.
— Kim Hunt Harris
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...
— William Osler
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
— Bob Greene
It's not anti-semitic to criticize Israel, but it's the most socially acceptable pastime of anti-semites.
— Annoymous
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.
— William Shakespeare
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
— Isadora Duncan
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
— Arthur Miller
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
— Queen Elizabeth II
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
— Roland Barthes
Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
— Bob Hope
Toil is the true knight's pastime.
— Charles Kingsley
I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.
— Taylor Swift
It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony.
— Nathan Hill
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
— Robert Benchley
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.
— Mirabel Osler
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.
— Mervyn Peake
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
— Phyllis McGinley
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
— Etgar Keret
When you doubt God's goodness, you hug sins tightly to your bosom, afraid that God will rob you of your crutch, your pastime, your pleasure.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
— Ambrose Bierce
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
— Natalie Goldberg
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
— Robert Towne
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.
— Judith McNaught
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
— John Henry Newman
The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...
— Francis Beaumont
My new favourite pastime is listening to Michael Brown read his poetry"
Sigourney Weaver — Michael Brown
Sigourney Weaver — Michael Brown
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
— Moliere
I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.
— Kesha
Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII Of England
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII Of England
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
— Phyllis McGinley
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.
— Matt Taibbi
I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.
— Jim Butcher
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
— Lou Gehrig
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
— John Webster
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
— Ed Oxenbould
The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!
— Geraldine McCaughrean
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.
— Mindy Kaling
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Travelling with a tail-end ball club is the poorest pastime in the world. I would rather ride in the first coach of a funeral procession.
— Christy Mathewson
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
— Alexander Ludwig
He applied himself to that pastime with great industry,
— Joseph Conrad
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
— Howard Staunton
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
— Harrison Ford
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
— Lord Chesterfield
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
— P. Chidambaram
I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
— Mason Cooley
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
— Orlando Bloom
Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
— George Will
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.
— Elizabeth Reyes
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
— Jean Cocteau
Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it's a fierce and unforgiving team sport.
— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
— Seth Godin
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.
— Mason Cooley
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
— Cassandra Clare
One still works, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
— William Shakespeare
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
— Roger Maris
Shooting is my principal pastime.
— William S. Burroughs
Gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.
— Patience Strong
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. — William Shakespeare
That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger
And think it pastime. — William Shakespeare
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
— Alexander Borodin
Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.
— Richard Branson
Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.
— Molly Ringle
We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
— Rivera Sun
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
— Audrey Hepburn
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
— Joseph Monninger
I just there for two days and that thought of what last words I could say to the firing squad. As good a pastime as any.
— Ayn Rand
The national pastime is juiced.
— Jose Canseco
What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
— Billy Graham
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
— George Herbert
I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
— Frank McCourt
To write for one's bread and to write for mere pastime are very different matters.
— William Le Queux
I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.
— Haylie Duff