Lazy Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Content in a way he’d rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. “I made you purr.” A lazy yawn. “I’m faking it.

  Nalini Singh

  Way, Mercy, Made

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.152, Penguin

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• Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Annoying, Lied, Obnoxious

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

  Julius Malema

  Ties, House, Voting

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• Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

  Andre Tchaikowsky

  Inspiration, Lazy People, Innovation

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• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Laziness, Belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Bible, Real, Passion

  "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.

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• People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Stupid, Long

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• I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

  Sara Gruen

  Grateful, Kids, Vegetables

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• Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

  Roger von Oech

  Attitude, Arrogant, Answers

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• They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

  Anne Frank

  Stupid, Selfish, Tired

  Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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• This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

  Ann Reed

  Writing, Rhyme, Asks

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• In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

  Michael Parenti

  School, College, Political

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• I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

  Cher

  Stupid, Records, Don't Trust

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• Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment.

  Gordon Willis

  People, Directors, Zoom

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• Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stress, Doors, Guy

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Wicked Appetite”, p.110, Macmillan

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• I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

  John Wayne

  Thinking, People, Complaining

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• Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Xmas, Prayer

  W. C. Fields, Ronald J. Fields (1973). “W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography”, Prentice Hall

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Smart, Men, Intellectual

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• Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

  Allison Mackie

  Monday, Sunshine, Hello

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