Pastime Quotes

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

Gossip, Baseball, National

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Less, Talking

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau

Art, Priesthood

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller

Life, Game, Find

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.
Mindy Kaling

Women, Diet, Fun

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.
Lauren Conrad

Nice, Fun, Stress

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Human, Matter, Universe

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
Arthur Smith

Lonely, Long, Miserable

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.
Eric Liu

Faith, Good, True

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?
Curtis Stone

Love, Work, Women

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn

Dreams, Baseball, Place

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth II

Enough, Easy, Quite

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
Phyllis McGinley

Poetry, Reading, National

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
Evan Bayh

Experience, Fun, Baseball

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster

Care, After, Greatness

My favorite pastime is to write.
Danny Bonaduce

Write, Favorite

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig

Game, Baseball, Room

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Long, Baseball, National

The national pastime is juiced.
Jose Canseco

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
George Herman

Today, Game, Baseball

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
Alexander Ludwig

Music, Travel, Writing

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood

May, Write, Story

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Mark McGwire

Baseball, America, Everyone

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Bob Greene

Baseball, Television, National

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage

Life, Education, Important

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
Elio Di Rupo

Government, Job, Together

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