Lying Around Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish…
— Christian Bale
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
— Eric Clapton
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He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy…
— Elmer Kelton
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I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
— Carrie Preston
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It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could…
— George Rodger
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Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.
— Doris Lessing
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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during…
— J. L. Carr
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I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.
— Tom Sims
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It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
— Ezra Koenig
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I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have…
— Christine McVie
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Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
— Amy Plum
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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,…
— Mark Twain
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
— George Eliot
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Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.
— Phyllis Diller
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Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
— Milton Friedman
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I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton…
— David Chalmers
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Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room.…
— Penn Jillette
Who Wrote These Lying Around Quotes
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