Hobbies Quotes - Page 19

• Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.

  J.R. Ward

  Flip, Favourite, Fingers

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.36, Penguin

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Lust, Vampire

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• Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Running, Dog

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• You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?" "Don't make me flip you off." "Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch]

  J.R. Ward

  Favorite Hobby, Trying, Gears

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.36, Penguin

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• You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many resources that we are depleting so quickly. And so, I thought it would be an interesting skill set to have if something were to go down, or even if it weren't. It's not post-apocalyptic idealism. It's more just like a fun hobby.

  Shailene Woodley

  Fun, Skills, California

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Golf, People

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• Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

  Douglas Adams

  Taken, World, Beard

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• As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like.

  Michael Langford

  Envy, Wish, May

  Michael Langford (1998). “Advanced Photography”, p.18, Taylor & Francis

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• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

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• One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.

  Adam Sandler

  Morning, Book, Fall

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• In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

  Ellen Glasgow

  Favorite Hobby, Vacuums, Strange

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• You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Fate, Murder Mysteries, Psychics

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• ... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Talking, People, Doe

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• When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Jobs, Drama, School

  "Harry Shum Jr: I Love That People See Dancers as Artists Now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Chiefs, Redskins, Interest

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• We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

  John Y. Campbell

  Jobs, Years

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• Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

  Pitbull

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

  Afrojack

  Couple, Years, People

  "Dutch DJ Afrojack: 'I Want to Change the Party Scene' (Q&A)" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 29, 2014.

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• If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

  Jason Calacanis

  Products, Ifs, Sells

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• Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

  Deniece Schofield

  Order, Each Day, May

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”

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• My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Parent, Telescopes, Astronomers

  "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.

  Phil Daniels

  Passion, Acting, Chelsea

  "Phil Daniels: 'Playing to thousands of people with Blur is not as daunting as doing a play in a small theatre'". Interview with Hannah Olivennes, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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