#pastime

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. ↗

— John Webster

#air #blown #bubbles #care #follow

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#favorite #i #i love #i think #less

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#beings #dual #existence #human #human beings

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

#creating #fiction #hours #how #hundreds

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. ↗

— Bob Greene

#been #hasn #like #many #national

I like watching people stretch in the park. It's my new favorite pastime since I bought a portable rack. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#pastime #stretch #funny

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#national #national pastime #pastime #poetry #reading