Pastime Quotes

• Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Priesthood, Art Is

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• Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

  Robert Benchley

  Work, Humor, People

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• True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

  Albert Camus

  Self Love, Debauchery, Lovers

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

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• I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Reading, Watches, Marathon

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

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• Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

  Erma Bombeck

  Baseball, Gossip

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• When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

  Lauren Conrad

  Growing Up, Fun, Nice

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• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Diverse

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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• Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Baseball, Long

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• You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Growing Up, Mean

  Babe Ruth's Farewell Speech, www.hark.com.

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• My favorite pastime is to write.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Writing, My Favorite

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• The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Eye, Games

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• If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Thinking, Talking, Names

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Quitting, Easy, Enough

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• To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sports, Thinking, Cash

  1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.

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• In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Reading, Australia Day, Poetry Is

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Football, Distance

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fun, Thinking, Bigs

  "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

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• Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Dream, Strong

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.140

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• I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

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

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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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• Shooting is my principal pastime.

  William S. Burroughs

  Shooting, Principal

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• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

  John Webster

  Greatness, Boys, Air

  John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  Evan Bayh

  Sports, Country, Baseball

  "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

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