Top 100 Quotes About Things To Do
#1. I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?
Emma Donoghue
#2. Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#3. There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
Henry Jackman
#4. Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears ...
Jack Kerouac
#5. One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that.
Allison Williams
#6. The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
Ted Shackelford
#7. It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.
Hugh Kingsmill
#8. There must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.
Ruth Rendell
#9. I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
J. C. Watts
#10. I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
L'Wren Scott
#11. Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#12. I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.
Jonathan Tropper
#13. I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.
Channing Tatum
#14. Apollo. I'm the fucking Lord of the Underworld. Do you honestly think I need to get my jollies by lying to others? I can think of so many better things to do.
Rosanna Leo
#15. most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances.
Seanan McGuire
#16. I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.
Kelli O'Hara
#17. I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'
He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'
I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?
Russell Hoban
#18. One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
Kresley Cole
#19. I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
Bob Newhart
#21. To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Katherine Mansfield
#22. One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.
Linda Cardellini
#23. The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler
#24. No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."
Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"
Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
Alane Ferguson
#25. I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.
Jimmy Carr
#26. I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.
Thomas Muster
#27. Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin)
I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat)
Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. How come I have too many things to do all the time ... ??
Hiroko Sakai
#29. Jessica," he whispered,
"arguing with you is one of my favorite things to do.
Penny Reid
#30. If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.
David Cross
#31. When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
Jill Scott
#32. I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#33. Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
Susan Mitchell
#34. There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#35. The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
#36. I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.
Ai Weiwei
#37. Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
Ryan Graudin
#38. The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J. Sawyer
#39. To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
Robert Fulghum
#40. Busy day ahead. Things to do. People to beat. A Dominatrix's work was never done.
Tiffany Reisz
#41. I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
Buddy Rich
#42. I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.
Tom Cruise
#43. Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
Robert Grosseteste
#44. One by one, the three picture-in-picture mini-screens drop off. They've grown tired of the geek-speak. They have more important things to do than watch the blow-by-blow engineering sausage-making.
Eduardo Suastegui
#46. Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.
Craig Bruce
#47. If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
Michael P. Anderson
#49. How can I forget there's just one life & so much to do.
Let me choose the best things to do and start to do.
Chetan M. Kumbhar
#50. One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.
Scott Baio
#51. Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
Nancy Gibbs
#52. Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.
Dave Goldberg
#53. I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
Jhonen Vasquez
#54. I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
Kara Hayward
#55. One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video
Donal O'Callaghan
#56. I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.
Brett Kelly
#57. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
Michael Josephson
#58. One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.
Brian Hodge
#59. I still have things to do. I met up with the stars, but I could not count them. I drew water from the well, but I could not offer it.
Eduardo Galeano
#60. My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
James Purefoy
#61. If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
Idries Shah
#62. I'm pretty sure my baby girl has better things to do with you than keep you on your toes.
Rochelle Paige
#63. There were a lot of fun things to do in heaven. But none were as thrilling as what you could do on Earth.
Simon Rich
#64. I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.
Amanda Palmer
#65. One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.
Neal Boortz
#66. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#67. Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
Sparky Anderson
#68. I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.
Lionel Shriver
#69. When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#70. I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
Jack McDevitt
#71. When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.
Mark Schiff
#72. Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
Bill Rancic
#73. A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
Ernest Bevin
#74. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
St. Lucia
#75. Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.
Keith Ward
#76. Having a mental breakdown is not on my list of things to do today.
Marissa Meyer
#77. Have you learned nothing from me? There are other things to do with a man besides marry him."
He sighed heavily.
"Sometimes I think deep down inside you're a lesbian.
Marshall Thornton
#78. Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
Tanith Lee
#80. Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.
Jeremy Bulloch
#81. The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time
Jennifer Niven
#82. If one person "wastes" away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
Francis Chan
#83. People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world.
John Sarbanes
#84. How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
H.L. Mencken
#85. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"
"Like what things?"
"Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
Emma Donoghue
#87. There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.
Sue Wicks
#88. When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#89. I'm sure you have other things to do. But before you go, want to get naked?
Laurelin Paige
#90. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#91. The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.
Ed Asner
#92. One book led to another; reading during my free time became a new fondness. Nonetheless, there was never much consideration of being a scholar when beginning to do so. The titles I was turning to seemed to speak directly to me, and soon the reviews became one of my favorite things to do.
Jessica Connor
#93. I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.
Ani DiFranco
#94. I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do.
Justin Bieber
#95. I imagined there were more pleasant things to do on a late-summer morning than pick up your only son from prison.
Michael Sears
#96. Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.
Monica Potter
#97. And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully.
Mercedes Lackey
#98. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.
Aimee Bender
#99. Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.
L.J.Smith
#100. There are a million important things to do. But none as important is lying here next to you.
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