Doldrums Quote by Phyllis McGinley Download Open image “A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.” — Phyllis McGinley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doldrums Hobbies
Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning. — Jack Passion Copy Share Image
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“Choose your favorite spade and dig a small, deep hole, located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again. — Alan Hansen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through… — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
