#idle

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#changing #color #idle #mind #reverie

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#back #bridle #broke #brought #bullet

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

#because #comic #guy #heaven #him

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ↗

— John Lubbock

#across #clouds #day #float #grass

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#day #every #film #i #makes

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ↗

— Karl Marx

#greatly #idlers #increased #machinery #number

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#better #fair #idle #intellect #powerful

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#been #bolivia #brought #capitalist #disasters

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

#act #america #basic #basic principles #consists