Idle Quotes - Page 26

• The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Order, Law

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• Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Sometimes, Said

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

  Eric Idle

  People, Eric, Left

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.

  Eric Lange

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Men, Ruins, Moments

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• But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

  Plato

  Fighting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hands, Devil, Projects

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hard Times, Way, Quiet

  Source: www.justjared.com

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