Lazy Quotes - Page 32

• Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

  John Green

  Children, Kids, Blow

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• Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn’t know for a fact that you’re too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Challenges, Would Be, Facts

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• Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

  Melina Marchetta

  Comfort, Overrated, Zone

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• but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

  David Sedaris

  Accomplishment, Mind, Enough

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

  Dawna Markova

  Sleep, Thinking, Feelings

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• Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Attitude, Apathetic

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• It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

  Camryn Manheim

  Stupid, Men, Self

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• At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

  Eric McCormack

  Lying, Coffee, Home

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• I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

  Katherine Heigl

  Work Out, Too Much, Free Time

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• The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

  Joyce Meyer

  Self, Flesh, Human Nature

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• I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

  David Millar

  Team, Legs, Firsts

  "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

  Sienna Miller

  Play, People, Bored

  "Sienna Miller: 'Whatever I say, I get myself into trouble'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

  Nicole Kidman

  Grief, Vengeance, Form

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• I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

  Michael Moore

  Hurt, Cutting, Wire

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• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Soccer, Running, Nice

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• What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

  Louis Aragon

  Wine, Fire, Ornaments

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Delay, Laziness

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• It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

  Edward Albee

  Theater, Irresponsible

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• I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble.

  Paul Samuelson

  Beach, Years, Class

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• Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

  Tad Williams

  Cocky

  Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.748, Penguin

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• I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sweet, Silly

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

  John Lennon

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

  Song: I'm Only Sleeping

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• Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Want, Organized

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• After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how.... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.' When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Fun, Character, Names

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• All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

  Samuel Smiles

  Struggle, Fall, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Thrift; Or, How to Get on in the World...”

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