Entertaining Oneself Quotes

#1. I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#2. She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail - you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, "Oh! when shall I leave you again?

Jane Austen

#4. The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?

Rumi

#6. In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

C. K. Williams

#8. One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment.

Marty Rubin

#9. Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

Cary Grant

#10. Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.

Jon Heder

#11. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Nell Casey

#12. Apparently 26 years ago, Arnold gave an interview to Oui magazine about his sex life. The good news is that Arnold is married to Maria Shriver and now that he's had a sex scandal, the Kennedy family has finally accepted him.

Jay Leno

#13. Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Nido R. Qubein

#14. No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.

Agatha Christie

#15. It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

Eleanor Catton

#16. When you've seen the worst,
You appreciate the best.

Louise Penny

#17. Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

Bill James