Hobbies Quotes · Page 7

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

— Lauren DeStefano

Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.

— John Updike

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

— Nigel Slater

“JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.”

— Pat Murphy

Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.

— Courteney Cox

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

— Harry Connick, Jr

“All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

— Jon Stewart

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing,…

— Dick Miller

I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded…

— Laura Lang

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a…

— Craig Sager

Mitt Romney is running for president again. That will be attempt No. 3. Well, everybody needs a hobby. He's almost certainly running,…

— David Letterman

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids,…

— Tom Brady

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies,…

— Naga Chaitanya

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half…

— Josh Homme

It is for me important to have hobbies. Otherwise I would go crazy playing tennis all the time. These hobbies help me…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the…

— Bronson Arroyo

People would ask me about my hobbies and what I liked. I had never been asked those questions because what I thought…

— Park Yeon-mi

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm…

— Justin Timberlake

People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as…

— Jeremy Irvine

“It might interest you to know," Tully says, "that there's a reason people build miniatures. Doesn't matter if it's guys laying out…

— Jane Lotter

The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when…

— Seth Godin

History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from…

— Tim Wu

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

— Edith Sitwell

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

— Jon Cryer

“He developed several hobbies that helped him to pass the time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.

— Dusty Hill

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

— Edward Abbey

My No. 1 hobby and interest is being a mom. It's something that makes me passionate, you know?

— Bianca Balti

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

— Warren Beatty

Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a…

— Carey Lowell

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

— George Santayana

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

— Connie Kalitta

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

— Anonymous

Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.

— Valerie Thomas

“Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

— Benny Green

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

— Betsy Byars