Busy Quotes
- Page 8Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
John Lasseter
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
Doris Lilly
You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
Scotty McCreery
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.
Kiana Tom
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
James Nasmyth
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Francois Truffaut
Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.
Hugh Shelton
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
Lee Ann Womack
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
Aidan Quinn
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
James Weldon Johnson
When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
Vince McMahon
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
I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
Niki Taylor
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia
And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
Umberto Guidoni
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
Dennis Wilson