If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story… — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is… — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer… — Steve Busby Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a… — Adam Goucher Copy Share Image
Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions… — William Osler Copy Share Image
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.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime… — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
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