#lei

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#because #bette #bette davis #davis #doing

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#leisure #more

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#before #foster #leisurely #little #mount

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#head #i #interesting #leia #now

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour. ↗

— John Motson

#colour #fabulous #kaleidoscope #nearly #shirts

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#handmaiden #leisure

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

#become #circulation #considered #consumption #fundamentally

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. ↗

— Larry Niven

#reading #scifi #age