Top 100 Quotes About Busy
#1. Time to start working hard for me. Get busy on my dream, instead of wasting my life on somebody else's.
Paul Antony Reid
#2. The day I die, I'll be too busy thinking to notice he waved his hand as he left the ship.
- Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance
A.Z. Kelvin
#3. I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site ...
Charles Manson
#4. You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.
Lexi Ryan
#5. The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#6. I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
Karl Pilkington
#7. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
Peter Cook
#8. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9. They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America's greatest city.
Claire Prentice
#10. You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
Iris Apfel
#11. I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
Lawrence Lessig
#12. We are never at home, we are always beyond. Fear, desire, hope, project us toward the future and steal from us the consideration of what is, to busy us with what will be, even when we shall no longer be."
-from "Our feelings reach out beyond us
Michel De Montaigne
#13. The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#14. I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
Theodore White
#15. Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
Steve Spurrier
#16. I guess you don't get to watch much TV in Irkalla."
He propped his head on one scaly bicep and turned to look at me. "Nah. We stayed busy torturing the souls of the damned and playing hide the hot poker. You know, the usual.
Jaye Wells
#17. Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present.
J.K. Rowling
#19. I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott
#20. I realize that I render people invisible because I am too ridiculously busy traveling to places far and wide to see people as anything more than an expendable tool to be used to facilitate those travels.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. I'm pretty busy: I'm a working mom and I know a lot about having a hectic schedule, but I think what's really important to me and what's on the top of that list is just making sure that my family stays healthy, especially during flu season.
Tia Mowry
#22. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
#23. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#24. One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
Condola Rashad
#25. Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge.
That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life.
Unfortunately, I am a wise man.
Saurabh Sharma
#26. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.
Jim Trelease
#27. I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.
Jeffrey Hunter
#28. The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door.
So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.
Charlaine Harris
#30. I am so busy doing nothing ... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Jerry Seinfeld
#31. Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Alice Walker
#33. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
Shonda Rhimes
#34. Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. I was so busy planning for tomorrow that I had nothing done today.
Keri L. Sparks
#36. Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime
Ben Horowitz
#37. The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
Graham Greene
#38. Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day?
Cecil Day-Lewis
#39. I'd tell you to ask my last assistant about my low tolerance, but his soul is busy being tortured and buttfucked in the Inner Sanctum." He laughed. "Buttfucked in the Sanctum. Get it?"
Apparently, the males of all species remained children no matter how old they got.
Larissa Ione
#40. I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around.
Emily Dickinson
#41. The Sun shone into my bath water through the West half window, and a big Maltese cat came and rub himself against the tub, watching me curiously. While I scrubbed my grandmother busy herself in the dining room.
Willa Cather
#42. She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth.
Belle Malory
#43. There's a Zen proverb that states "If you're too busy to sit still for 10 minutes, you need to sit still for an hour.
J.D. Yoder
#44. As you go about your busy day, don't forget to look up.
S.E. Sasaki
#45. A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman
#46. You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra
#47. I am too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.
Ronnie Screwvala
#48. My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
Rachel Joyce
#49. If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.
Mike Bickle
#50. Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!
Lady Gaga
#51. I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
Creed Bratton
#52. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#53. Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!
J'son M. Lee
#54. I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
Michael Imperioli
#55. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
S. Truett Cathy
#56. To contemplation's sober eye,
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly,
Shall end where they began,
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day.
Thomas Gray
#57. The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
William Inge
#58. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
Lorraine Bracco
#59. Tomorrow I'm going to mow the lawn and prune the trees, and after that I'll cook some stew and casseroles to put in the freezer. We'll be glad of them when we're busy gaining dominion over the world, and can't find time to cook.
Alex Gabriel
#60. People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
Harold S. Kushner
#61. I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little heart, Disney princess-style. I did end up in a palace, so that's cool.
Stefan Bachmann
#62. Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. But
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.
Ryan Sheckler
#64. It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King
#65. An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr
Elaine Orr
#66. The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles.
Max Lucado
#67. There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.
Rudyard Kipling
#68. THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
William Butler Yeats
#69. The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers.
Gucci Mane
#70. To them, it is a journey that has twists, turns, bumps and possibly detours, but no end. There are no exit ramps. And they don't care. They are too busy having fun.
Shonda Rhimes
#71. People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.
William Raspberry
#72. Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.
Thomas L. Masson
#73. The object is to keep busy being something ... as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#74. Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first ... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.
Robert Kiyosaki
#75. When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
Bobby Davro
#76. I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
Nina Conti
#77. I bless you with a curse to always remain busy
Amit Abraham
#78. But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.
J.K. Rowling
#79. Pretty dark in there, says Ash. Did you git lost? I feel a hot flush crawl up my neck. Lucky for me, Hermes trots over an I busy myself strokin his neck. It uh ... took us longer than we thought to put out the fire, says Jack.
Moira Young
#80. My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.
Robert Shaw
#81. Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.
Christopher Titus
#82. We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.
Richard Li
#83. Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
David W Augsburger
#84. A WATERY BLISS
As busy as an ice cream freezer,
On a Sunday getting hotter,
Happy is the honey eater-
The busy ocean otter,
Floating alongside Teter,
On a sea full of water.
Giorge Leedy
#85. The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
#86. Part of me felt mollified by the letter, though another part felt he still could have been a bit more tactful in his earlier treatment, busy or no. The rest of me pointed out that all of these "parts of me" probably should be in therapy.
Richelle Mead
#87. To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#88. Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
Peter Noone
#89. Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
Robert Genn
#90. In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me ...
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance.
Leonard Cohen
#91. My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
Hannah Gadsby
#92. Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lying sad right around the corner,
Only an instant removed,
Unnoticed and squandered.
Dejan Stojanovic
#93. I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.
Noel Gallagher
#94. I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.
Brian Posehn
#95. Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Bill Vaughan
#96. I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support.
Veronica Roth
#97. Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
Greg Behrendt
#98. I am nowhere close to finished but I'm the kind of busy that feels eternal, the kind where you can't say I'll be done in a few hours because the truth is you will never, ever, be done.
Nina LaCour
#99. I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
Bela Fleck
#100. Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
Steve C. Roberts
