#lax

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... ' ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#because #beer #clear #contest #gonna

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#i #movies #opening #relaxing #spent

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#been #fun #i #jazz #just

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#conventional #dramatic #event #lax #like

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself. ↗

— Katie Hoff

#i #just #kind #like #more

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #case #emotional #front #important

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#built #i #job #last #lose

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aspect #business #go #good #i

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing. ↗

— Tom Felton

#fish #fishing #i #like #relaxing

First, relax. ... And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book. ... My two words of advice are exemplified in what I call the Russian Novel Phenomenon. Every reader must have experienced that depressing moment about fifty pages into a Russian novel when we realize that we have lost track of all the characters, the variety of names by which they are known, their family relationships and relative ranks in the civil service. At this point we can give in to our anxiety, and start again to read more carefully, trying to memorize all the details on the offchance that some may prove to be important. If such a course is followed, the second reading is almost certain to be more incomprehensible than the first. The probable result: one Russian novel lost forever. But there is another alternative: to read faster, to push ahead, to make sense of what we can and to enjoy whatever we make sense of. And suddenly the book becomes readable, the story makes sense, and we find that we can remember all the important characters and events simply because we know what is important. Any re-reading we then have to do is bound to make sense, because at least we comprehend what is going on and what we are looking for. ↗

— Frank Smith

#relax #russian-novel-phenomenon #family