Lounging Quotes

• And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

  Delta Burke

  Shopping, Bigs, Big Things

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Gambling

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Red, Pockets, Velvet

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.356, Penguin

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• Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

  David Hume

  Reading, Journey, Thinking

  David Hume (1888). “Letters of David Hume to William Strahan”

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• Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Attitude, Cat

  Charles Baudelaire, “Les Chats (Cats)”

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• My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself.

  Miranda July

  Writing, House, Comforting

  Interview with Eli Horowitz, www.believermag.com.

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• We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Home, Giving

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• Free... Yes...FREE time
  Is what retirement brings
  Leisure, lounging and loafing
  And other lazy things

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Lazy, Leisure

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• Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.151, Penguin

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• They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?" Percy frowned. "No. Before that.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Sunset, Mean

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• I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

  Jill Scott

  Feelings, Naked, Purpose

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• We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

  Robert Musil

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins (1996). “The Man Without Qualities”, Vintage

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• Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nice, Shoes, Coworker

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Challenges, Risk, Difficulty

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Assuming

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• 'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.

  Ted Alexandro

  Teacher, Verbs, Wasting Time

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Mean, Piano

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dirty, Men, White

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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• That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan,” said Will. “Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?” Benedict’s dark eyes hardened. “Insolent puppy—” “Oh, I’d say she was a friend,” said Tessa. “One doesn’t usually let one’s business associates lick one’s face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I’m only a silly woman.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Eye, Dark

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