Leisured Quotes

#1. I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.

Anna Wintour

#2. Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis
duly thankful.

Aldous Huxley

#3. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

William Butler Yeats

#4. The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Again, do you call those men leisured who spend many hours at the barber's simply to cut whatever grew overnight, to have a serious debate about every separate hair, to tidy up disarranged locks or to train thinning ones from the sides to lie over the forehead?

Seneca.

#6. And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.

Kathleen Raine

#7. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#8. Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes - affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism - the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihilistic response.

Victor Davis Hanson

#9. The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly

#10. The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

Hilda Scott

#11. I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually.

Angela Carter

#12. The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia.

Seneca.

#13. Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

Peter Farb

#14. It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Phyllis McGinley

#15. There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

Mark Zuckerberg

#17. Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Totie Fields

#18. There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

John Updike

#19. I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.

Patrice Evra

#20. There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Gary Gygax

#21. To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

Akio Morita

#22. Love's love in her blackest season.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#23. You don't need to crave anything, because you are already everything. It's all here, right now.

Max Weiss

#24. I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time.

Tim Kinsella

#25. If it doesn't have ambiguity, don't bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography - it's got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it's not interesting to me.

Sally Mann

#26. Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#27. Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

Asne Seierstad

#28. Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.

Suzanne Young

#29. The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it.

Leonard Roy Frank