Activity Quote by Jeremy Paxman Download Open image “Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.” — Jeremy Paxman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Britain Britain Depressing Depressing Find Leisure Most Popular Popular Leisure Television Tv Tv Popular Very Watching Watching tv
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible. — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you're… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
There's a real culture of watching television in Britain that there isn't in other countries. Because we have the BBC, which everyone watches, there's… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;” — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there? — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image