Lazy Quotes - Page 5

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Nuts, Feminist

  "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

  Chinua Achebe

  Procrastination, Apology, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Girls at War”, p.42, Anchor

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• Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mind, Welcome, Excuse

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners By Sigmund Freud”, BookRix

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• If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

  Matt Taibbi

  Animal, Opportunity, Order

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• I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

  Prince William

  Work, Cooking, Want

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• Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

  Frank O'Hara

  Nice, Stupid, Writing

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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• When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

  Diablo Cody

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  "Running with Diablo". Interview with Matt Smith, www.citypages.com. December 26, 2007.

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• The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

  Georges Simenon

  New York, Night, Bed

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• Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Reading, Discipline

  "On Reading".

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• Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

  Nicole Kidman

  Grief, Vengeance, Conflict

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• People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, People, Television

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• Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stride, Disintegration

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.395, Vintage

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• The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Redneck, Men, White

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• Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Hate

  "Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1988.

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• You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.59, Random House

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• Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Effort, Laziness

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.369, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Crazy, Naughty

  J R R Tolkien (1973). “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings”

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• It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

  Carl Sagan

  Couple, Lying, Reading

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• Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

  Kate Atkinson

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

  "Human Croquet: A Novel".

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• I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

  Warren Ellis

  Tattoo, Heart, Forever

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• Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Art, Eye, Men

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• Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Father, Selfish, Thinking

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.208, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Song, Rocks

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