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Pastime Quotes (page 2)

As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories’. Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air – the indulging in waking dreams – the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
Truman Capote quote: "My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and..."
My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. Truman Capote
And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. Khalil Gibran
Arthur Miller quote: "Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life..."
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Arthur Miller
Joseph Gordon-Levitt quote: "I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all..."
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Lou Gehrig quote: "There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our..."
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. Lou Gehrig
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment. Curt Flood
Elizabeth II quote: "It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not...."
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. Elizabeth II
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
Phyllis McGinley quote: "In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. Phyllis McGinley
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it? Curtis Stone
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. George Herman
John Webster quote: "In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime..."
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. John Webster
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. John Thorn

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