Busy Quotes - Page 35

• The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, World, Steps

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871). “My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History”, p.74

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• A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

  Thomas Paine

  Doors, Temptation, World

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

  Francis Quarles

  Ambition, Men, Self

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• Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Artist, Vision

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

  Anne Sexton

  Artist, Wonder, Ifs

  Anne Sexton, Webster's II Dictionaries, Lois Ames (1979). “Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters”, Mariner Books

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• The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Dark, Sight

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

  Agnes Repplier

  Teaching, Learning

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

  Sri Chinmoy

  People, Inner Peace, Want

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• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

  Dorothy Day

  Husband, Children, Loneliness

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• We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

  Iris Murdoch

  Light, Self, Secret

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sea, Doe, Want

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• Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

  Teresa of Avila

  Disappointment, Kitchen, Tasks

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, Humble

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

  Freya Stark

  Luck, Age, Looks

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• writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

  Edna Ferber

  Witty, Writing, Profound

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

  Gene Simmons

  Running, Race, Over You

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

  Haile Gerima

  Editing, Matter, Documentary Films

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Falling In Love, People, Important

  Source: saseye.com

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• I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Book, Mcdonalds, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, School, Boys

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• But the day is spent;
  And stars are kindling in the firmament,
  To us how silent--though like ours, perchance,
  Busy and full of life and circumstance.

  Samuel Rogers

  Stars, Silent, Firmament

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.204

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• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

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• Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
  And if upon its stillness fall
  The visions of a busy brain,
  We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
  To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
  Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

  Joanna Baillie

  Good Night, Dream, Sweet

  Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy”, p.253

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