Puttering Quotes

#1. Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish.

Knut Hamsun

#2. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Laura Vanderkam

#3. There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

David Fincher

#4. I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that ... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Sonya Walger

#5. Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.

Durga Chew-Bose

#6. The imagination needs moodling,
long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

#7. Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

Terry Pratchett

#8. The problem with taking your happy pills and puttering along as before is that it's no better than sweeping dirt under the carpet. I want you to take that rug out back and beat the hell out of it.

Julie Holland

#9. Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself ... To putter is to discover.

Alexandra Stoddard

#10. I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

Malin Akerman

#11. I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...

Megyn Kelly

#12. If you want the long road to success do it all by yourself.

James Jean-Pierre

#13. I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

Taylor Hicks

#14. I am a cultural Frankinstein

Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen

#15. Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

John Charles Pollock