Busy Quotes - Page 37

• Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
  Drink with me and drink as I!
  Freely welcome to my cup,
  Could'st thou sip and sip it up;
  Make the most of life you may;
  Life is short and wears away.

  William Oldys

  Life Is Short, May, Cups

  William Oldys, “An Anacreontick”

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• It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Real, Destiny, Given

  Georgette Mosbacher (1993). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve”

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• Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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• My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

  Robert Shaw

  School, Kids, Responsibility

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• Self-love is a busy prompter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Self, Self Love

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469

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• I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?'  I'm this age.  I am in this moment and in this life.

  Emmylou Harris

  Thinking, Age, Moments

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• I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

  Natascha McElhone

  Morning, Writing, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Kids, Successful, Tv Shows

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• Dear Kanye West. It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.

  Shirley Manson

  Hard Work, Humble, Artist

  Shirley Manson @shirleymanson, www.facebook.com. February 09, 2015.

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• As an actor, you're never busy enough.

  Bryan Callen

  Actors, Enough

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• The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Reading, Mean, Life Is

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• It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Past, Hands, Errors

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• The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

  Maren Elwood

  Roots, Old Habits, Differences

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Air, Reform, Pillars

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• What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Men, Clothes, Bird

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• [On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

  Abby May Alcott

  Father, Wife, Verbs

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• I like to just hang out. My friends dont like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times Im busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.

  Jenna Boyd

  Chance, Kind, Hanging Out

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• Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

  Walter Isaacson

  Dying, Born, Dylan

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.693, Simon and Schuster

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• The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their diocese enjoyed a free importation of vice and error from every province of the empire; the eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis: and we may credit the assertion of an intelligent observer, who describes, with some pleasantry, the effects of their loquacious zeal.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Religious, Intelligent

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.21, Modern Library

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• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  Aristotle

  Education, Men, Giving

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  John Lennon

  Parenting, Doors, Healthy

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• Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

  Ray McKinnon

  Might, Rectify, Ifs

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• People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

  Michel Foucault

  Light, People, Regulation

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.158, Vintage

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• Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

  Aristophanes

  Sex, Husband, Children

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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