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Idle Quotes by Will Self
- Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because…
- Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
More Idle Quotes
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand
- 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
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon
- A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the… — Osbert Sitwell