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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier
Man
Pleasure
Fabric
Constructs
Self
He
True
His
Leisure
Really
Lives
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
Alan Ball
Time
You
Television
TV
Between
Difference
Leisure
Pace
Film
Film And TV
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley
Time
Heroes
Think
Way
No Time
Sons
Making
Won
Leisure
Enjoying
Necessary
Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
Alice Ripley
Time
Booth
Leisure
Leisure Time
Theater
Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.
Amy Morin
Life
Work
Time
You
Yourself
People
Joy
Impossible
Rich
Live
Once
About
Give
Only
Schedules
Over
Goof
Most
Without
Permission
Doing
Off
Left
Forget
Leisure
Happens
While
Full
Full Life
Productivity
Fill
Things
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
Andrea Bocelli
People
Example
Cycling
For Example
Sport
Blind
Tandem
Surprised
Very
Quite
Often
Leisure
Popular
Activities
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
War
Peace
Wait
Care
Will
Living
Furnish
Must
Never
Retirement
Read
American
Listen
Leisure
Which
Room
Really
Meanwhile
Helps
Living Room
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
Life
Contentment
Immediate
Say
Must
Parent
Conceive
Want
Leisure
Which
Toil
Evening
Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Work
Home
Women
Men
Men And Women
Factory
Between
Most
Wage
Shift
Office
Just
Leisure
Them
Workplace
Gap
Second
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Library
Alexandria
Immensely
Neither
Had
Real
Nor
Tragedy
Discriminate
Taste
Burned
Leisure
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Thou
Thy
Employ
Well
Leisure
Gain
Meanest
I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweaters around at home in my leisure. And my poor husband was very confused! I said, 'It's what Olivia Pope does'.
Betsy Beers
Home
Confused
Result
Husband
Scandal
Wearing
Instead
Around
Does
Said
Very
Leisure
Poor
Sweaters
Pope
Actually
Olivia
Started
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
Boy George
Time
Culture
Club
Kicked
Broke
Out
London
Had
House
Period
Because
Around
Been
Lot
Off
Up
Going
Just
Leisure
Acid
Working
Whole
Suddenly
Thing
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey
Devil
Leisure
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey
Time
Problem
How
Ballplayer
Leisure
Biggest
Leisure Time
Biggest Problem
Use
Your
Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.
Bryan Stevenson
Money
Made
Rich
Ways
Would
More
Never
Had
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Feel
Obviously
Trade
Were
Dollars
Lot
Bank
Leisure
Choose
Unique
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.
Carol Channing
Time
Me
Suits
First
Finally
Fine
Structure
Almost
Days
First Time
Am
Decades
Lady
Leisure
Agenda
The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
Christo
People
Walk
Only
Park
Where
Manhattan
Leisure
Place
Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.
Claudia Winkleman
Time
Down
Think
Cold
Spend
Way
Dressing
Having
Kit
Come
Freezing
Insulated
Masters
Up
Mountain
James
James Bond
Leisure
Leisure Time
Ski
Skiing
Who
Even
Actually
Bond
Olympic
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Clive Bell
Class
Mistake
Big
Crowd
Leisure
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold
Busy
More
Leisure
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!
Deborah Meaden
Myself
Queen
Find
Industry
Sure
How
Off
Quite
Happened
Leisure
Now
Started
It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
Deborah Tannen
Time
Conflict
Pressure
Think
Ways
Easy
Entirely
Absence
Writers
Catch
Attention
Headlines
New
Ideas
Attract
Understand
Audience
New Ones
Up
Often
Established
Want
Leisure
Which
Them
Expressing
Why
Copy
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.
Derren Brown
Myself
Gay
Long
Poet
Somewhere
Hair
Drop
Philosopher
Earring
More
Long Hair
Week
Had
Female
Years
Cloak
Pirate
May
Leisure
Fancied
Wore
Many
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
Eddie Murphy
People
Gentleman
Else
Telling
Something
Something Else
Until
Make
Go
Going
Leisure
Movies
Then
Fifty
Professional
Keep
There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
Eric Fellner
Time
Competition
More
Than
Leisure
Leisure Time
Much
Ever
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