Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school. — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night… — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears,… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame. — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time.… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
