However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton 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
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy 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
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the… — Joseph Cornell 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
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
“I de siste Dager har jeg tænkt og tænkt paa Nordlandssommerens evige Dag. Jeg sitter her og tænker paa den og paa… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille 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
Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
