Pastime Quotes - Page 6

• Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

  Joseph Monninger

  Reading, Fishing, Hiking

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• Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!

  Si Robertson

  Men, Naps, Needs

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• I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

  Mervyn Peake

  Home, Boys, Smell

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press

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• Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

  Thomas Boswell

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

  Moliere

  Learning, Past, Reason

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• Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

  Philippe Aries

  Children, Games, Play

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.329, Crown Forum

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• Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

  Mason Cooley

  Family, Family Life, Blackmail

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• Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sports, Spring, Book

  "The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

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• I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Mother, Years, Names

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. OCtober 5, 2016.

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• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  Emily Haines

  Self, Order, People

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

  James Reston, Jr.

  War, Golf, Poverty

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• I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Believe, Too Much

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• I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Complaining, Arguing

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• Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Attitude, Mean, Occupation

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

  Ronald Reagan

  Baseball, Political, Discounts

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• Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Long Walks, Two

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Names

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fun, Exercise, Fit

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Childhood, Shadow, Elements

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• I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Passion, Writing, Choices

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• I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

  Billy Campbell

  Independent, Cowboy, Play

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

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