Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
Pauline Frederick

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

Big Brother is watching... look busy.
Brandon Boyd

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
Dennis Wilson

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
James Lipton

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
Nigel Dennis

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Marie Windsor

Error is always more busy than truth.
Hosea Ballou

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

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
Andre Braugher

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
Tom Ford

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
Shelby Foote

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois