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I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith
Idle
Am
Being
Capable
If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.
Alison Mosshart
Me
You
People
Party
Painting
Running
Find
Something
Most
Likely
Around
Idle
Lots
Very
Just
Want
Floor
I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.
Ann Leckie
Alone
Win
Would
Except
Most
Wrote
Obviously
Idle
Anything
Fantasies
Many
Awards
Ever
Imagine
I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.
Betty Field
Work
Unhappy
Rest
Think
Must
More
Only
Point
Idle
Being
Working
Awful
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
Bill Budge
Keyboard
Someone
Know
Idle
Sitting
Just
Should
Use
Novice
Proficient
Program
The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Change
People
Thinking
Way
Input
Has-Been
More
Lightning
Like
Reaching
Idle
Climate
Climate Change
Issues
Were
Been
Rod
Bigger
Who
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen
Death
Entertainment
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Temperature
Could
Higher
Beat
Toward
Nobody
Idle
Subject
Than
Elderly
Ignorant
Hard
Sarah
Euthanasia
Ever
Palin
Appointed
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
Chandra Wilson
Mom
Age
Dance
Classes
Taking
House
Also
She
Idle
Child
Modeling
Going
Childhood
Decided
Then
Acting
Acting Classes
Lessons
Four
Saturdays
Started
Starting
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.
Chang-Rae Lee
Parents
Wish
Think
Recognised
Some
Writer
Part
Always
Idle
Wanted
I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.
Dan Jenkins
Day
Morning
You
Listening
Coffee
Country
Philosophers
Biscuits
Way
Paper
Tell
Exactly
Table
Window
Pot
Only
Putting
Masters
Idle
Wits
Ham
Overlooking
Been
Years
Begin
Green
Eggs
Authors
Each
Each Day
Competitors
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. Harburg
You
Become
Rich
Never
Know
Idle
Just
Which
Poor
Who
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales
Lie
Law
Three
Latin
Consists
Moral
Indians
Steal
Principles
Idle
According
America
Act
Reserve
Basic
Basic Principles
Universal
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
Frank B. Kellogg
War
Great
History
Struggle
Building
Other
Back
Say
Outdo
See
Never
Idle
Go
Effect
Contrary
Nations
Them
Use
Appalling
Each
Competing
Last
'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
G. Willow Wilson
Work
Faith
Worth
Trouble
Complex
Well
Readers
Idle
Undertaking
Any
Fantasy
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
Gustav Klimt
Art
Food
Thoughts
Thought
Late
Plenty
About
Both
Although
Idle
Am
Being
Even
Early
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Harlan Coben
Happy
Writing
Says
Voice
Head
Always
Idle
Very
Should
I'm not very happy idle.
Harlan Coben
Happy
Idle
Very
Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
Henry J. Heinz
Will
Believe
Plenty
Out
Wear
Rust
Rather
Well
Always
Idle
Than
Cannot
Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.
Herbert A. Simon
Time
Inquiry
Through
Practical
Greatest
Idle
Affairs
Arrived
Truths
Human
Human Affairs
Process
Again
Moment
Found
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
Satan
Finds
Some
Mischief
Always
Idle
Still
Hands
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
Rare
Those
Only
Indispensable
Fail
Idle
Very
Curiosity
May
Realize
Who
Thing
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky
Sit
Darfur
Atrocities
Idle
Continue
Unfold
Cannot
While
Sudan
Jew
There are a lot of young people out there who need to start using their idle time in a positive way. Parents need to play an important role in making sure their children succeed in school.
Jesse White
Positive
Time
People
School
Parents
Important
Young
Positive Way
Way
Out
Sure
Idle
Important Role
Making
Lot
Role
Children
Young People
Succeed
Who
Using
Play
Start
Need
The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.
Joe Gebbia
Love
Other
Resource
Out
Seeing
About
Sharing
Economy
Idle
Making
Any
Use
Companies
Flourish
I'm not good when idle.
Joe Wright
Good
Idle
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
Jon Lovitz
Me
Money
Made
Run
Seeing
Guy
Take
He
Smiling
Him
Because
Comic
Idle
Years
Heaven
Stop
Want
After
Woody
Working
Who
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