Top 100 You're Busy Quotes

#1. You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything. Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.

Emma Bull

#2. Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.

Hugh Laurie

#3. I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.

Jennette McCurdy

#4. You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

Annette Curtis Klause

#5. Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.

Summer Sanders

#6. You always say that," said Evan, "but then you go on your trips and vacations and then you settle back into things and then you're quiet for a while and then you say you're fine, you're busy, and then after a while you say you're going crazy again, and you start all over.

Lorrie Moore

#7. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

Liza Minnelli

#8. Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

Steven Moffat

#9. A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass.

Ann Aguirre

#10. You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.

Sukhraj S. Dhillon

#11. Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... "
"Life should be more than keeping busy."
"Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.

Judy Blume

#12. You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!

Beth Hoffman

#13. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#14. When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

Caitlin Moran

#15. So remember when you're looking for trouble
That trouble is already busy with weaker men

Pete Townshend

#16. The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do.

Meredith Salenger

#17. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Leslie Mann

#18. the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing.

Nick Alexander

#19. There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy - they've so cluttered up their lives - they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, I love you.

Mike Yaconelli

#20. Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Michael Winslow

#21. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

George Takei

#22. Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another) ... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Harper Lee

#23. There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve.

Nancy Meyers

#24. John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

David Letterman

#25. You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

#26. For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness.

Iain Sinclair

#27. If you can remain with absolutely nothing to do for even a short period of time - that's a taste of freedom. Being busy is ok, not being busy is also ok. Not caring whether you're busy or not busy is really ok.

Art Hochberg

#28. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self

Trent Shelton

#29. There aren't many kids today as good as you are. Kids today are selfish; they don't think of others. They're too busy listening to devil music on their eight-track players to think of anyone else.

K. Martin Beckner

#30. Strange, but I actually wished I was hungover. Because when you're so busy thinking about how awful you feel you forget for a moment how awful you are. Because pain can be its own relief. Because throwing up is a super-effective way to stay a size 0.

Elizabeth Little

#31. Watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting for, you don't notice it never actually comes.

Marisha Pessl

#32. Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence W. Reed

#33. You're so busy being you that you have no idea how truly unprecedented you are

John Green

#34. When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Jenna Morasca

#35. You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit.

Caitlin Moran

#36. 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

#37. [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Dorothy Parker

#38. Love is listening when they are ready to talk
midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

Sharon G. Larsen

#39. And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?

Tom Hardy

#40. So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.

Daniel Goldin

#41. As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#42. So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

Joseph Cook

#43. He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding.

Alexandra Bracken

#44. If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.

Nathanael West

#45. I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I never get tired of talking to other people.

Marc Maron

#46. You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are

John Green

#47. No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.

Exurb1a

#48. We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

Wayne Huizenga

#49. The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

Diplo

#50. Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

Cat Deeley

#51. I think you're so busy reading between the lines, you're missing the sentence on the page.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#52. Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

Marvin Hamlisch

#53. V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ?
Barrons: She's working on old texts with me.
V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.
Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra ... with interactive aids.

Karen Marie Moning

#54. No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Patrick Stump

#55. As an actor, you're never busy enough.

Bryan Callen

#56. I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

Joe Wright

#57. That's what you were trying to say, isn't it? I mean, I think ... mostly we're too busy living to stop and notice we're alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.

Neil Gaiman

#58. Some people think I'm completely uninterested. Dismissive. Apathetic ... ."
"Heh." His weight settled atop me. "I don't know how you were with your other lovers, but ... . People see what they want to see. Or completely miss things when they're too busy looking for flaws.

Santino Hassell

#59. It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

Frederick Lenz

#60. [ ... ] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet - and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head.

Neal Shusterman

#61. Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.

Polly Shulman

#62. You're going to be too busy being at my beck and call to worry about doing any driving.

Shawn Keenan

#63. If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants."
"I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

Shelby Reed

#64. If you're too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you're too busy.

Jase Robertson

#65. Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

Tina Fey

#66. Like the White Rabbit in Alice, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date. They're following me, you see, but I needed to double back and talk to you. Busy-busy-busy!

Stephen King

#67. When someone tells you they're too busy, it's not that they mismanage their time, it's that you're not a priority.

Rob Liano

#68. People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#69. Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you. You might miss it if you're too busy bee. Live your life with a little bit of spice!

Timi Nadela

#70. Busy is good because it shows
you're alive.

Alison G. Bailey

#71. It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.

Jennifer Niven

#72. I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.

Melina Marchetta

#73. When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

Gene Simmons

#74. Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

Kyp Malone

#75. If you're too busy worrying about what might be, you forget to enjoy what you have.

Barbara Claypole White

#76. When you're busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.

Marilyn Suttle

#77. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Walter Isaacson

#78. My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy ... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Ella Eyre

#79. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

#80. THE DAY TOMORROW CAME I know you're busy doing all the things you always planned to do but remember, today is also the day that you kiss me.

Pleasefindthis

#81. Uncomplicate it. Don't make excuses. Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.

Kandi Steiner

#82. Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better.

Jamie Kain

#83. I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

Arthur Godfrey

#84. My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," ... and hangs up.

Erma Bombeck

#85. If you're too busy looking back at the past, you won't be able to enjoy the future!

Dawn M. Plass

#86. Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#87. Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Ram Dass

#88. Here's what I've learned about raising boys ... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Kenny Rogers

#89. I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

Ringo Starr

#90. Sometimes we're so busy looking at one thing, one ... person ... that we can't see anything else. Maybe - maybe it's time for you to open your eyes and look around.

Aprilynne Pike

#91. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#92. In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Gordon Korman

#93. When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

Don Rickles

#94. There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree.

Greg Behrendt

#95. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

Linda Tirado

#96. On My Response to Having My Tires Slashed Oh, don't go to the goddamned cops. They're busy with real shit. I don't want my tax dollars going to figuring out who thinks you're an asshole.

Justin Halpern

#97. ... saying that you don't have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don't have time to stop for gas because you're too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you. - The Monk who sold his Ferrari

Robin S. Sharma

#98. Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

Betsy Brandt

#99. You've got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything's crazy and you're not paying attention to your inner feelings because you're so busy. I couldn't take it.

Lenny Kravitz

#100. When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Alex Trebek

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