Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 15

• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

  Ian Mcewan

  Changed, Courses

  "On Chesil Beach". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2007.

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• I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

  Jorge Garcia

  Dog, House, Parks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Long

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.153, Macmillan

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• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, Mind, Importance Of Being Earnest

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Actors, Littles, Kitsch

  "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Attitude, Awful, Seems

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.229, Macmillan

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• In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Song, Lying, Idlers

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.

  Tom Sims

  Lying, Meditation

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• Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

  David Attenborough

  Years, Littles, Size

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

  Greta Garbo

  Stupid, Silly, Men

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

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• If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

  Noel Gallagher

  Kids, Giving, Advice

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• As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.

  Bob Beauprez

  Country, Safety, Growth

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• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Believe, Inspiration

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

  William Barclay

  Men, May, Wells

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• If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

  Jeff Kinney

  Real, People, Expectations

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, p.22, Abrams

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• Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Voting

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Dog, Children

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• Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Sometimes, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

  Alan Moore

  War, Responsibility, Power

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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• What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Men, Attention, Entering

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I’d sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I’d rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.327, Macmillan

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• They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

  Jean Genet

  Intimacy, Fuse

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

  Alice Cooper

  Sex, Moving, America

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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