#busy

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#searching #business

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#especially #find #fulfilling #i #keep

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. ↗

— Steve Albini

#being #busy #delusion #doing #else

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#celebrity #city #downtown #everyone #hollywood

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#busy #credit #damning #done #far

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. ↗

— Don Marquis

#keep #ones #people #rest #successful

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. ↗

— George Carey

#fire #goes #out #over #prayer

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#attend #busy #hours #i #january

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course