I wish that I could marshall all the young to an…

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance…

— Helen Fielding

What I do have is an appreciation for the fact that I've been very blessed and fortunate with timing, in getting opportunities that I…

— Sean McVay

“One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky.…

— Elizabeth Berg

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their…

— Paul Bloom

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher…

— Avery Brundage

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they…

— Joseph Paxton

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and…

— Strom Thurmond

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men…

— Leonardo da Vinci

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

— Blaise Pascal

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality.…

— Agnes Repplier

I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit…

— Rob Lowe

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

— Lukas Podolski

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,…

— Chauncey Depew