Hobbies Quotes - Page 10

• I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

  Susan Orlean

  Girl, Dream, Tired

  "Perchance to Dream" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2010.

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Manhattan

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, Childhood

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• I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

  Emma Roberts

  Fun, Nice, Writing

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• I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

  Ricky Schroder

  Horse, Self Esteem, Acting

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• I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

  Amy Sedaris

  Imagination, Use, Crafts

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Lying, Doors, Long

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.102, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Soul, Littles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.12, Thomas Hardy

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• Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Home, Temptation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2000). “This Craft of Verse”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Survival, Honor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

  Fred Reed

  Peace, Children, War

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• My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

  Stewart Francis

  Dad, Drinking, Sound

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• I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

  Dick Miller

  Fun, Father, Son

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• Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

  David Penhaligon

  Mps, Politics, Honest

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• Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

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• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Quality, Sometimes

  "We still have the same disease" by Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Teenager, Passion, Play

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.

  Austin Mahone

  Sweet, Men, Play

  "Austin Mahone On His New Single And Summer Tour (With Taylor Swift!)". Interview With Casey Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

  Walker Percy

  People, Suffering, Despair

  "The Moviegoer". Book by Walker Percy, 1961.

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• Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

  Diamond D

  Men, Guitar, Hands

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• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Smoking, Adults

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

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• Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

  Warren Buffett

  World, Likes

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• Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

  Sara Maitland

  Christian, Buddhist, Prayer

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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