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  • I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

    Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
  • Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

  • Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

  • Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

    Games   Pastime  
    Life, February 7, 1964.
  • I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

    Home  
    Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press
  • You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

    William Shakespeare (1850). “Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon”, p.16
  • I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

  • What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

    Golf  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America
  • Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

    Leigh Hunt (1859). “Works”, p.38
  • Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

    Pastime  
  • Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

    People  
  • I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

  • I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his own path. I think the modeling is something that Rafferty Law sees as a pastime and something to maybe give him a bit of pocket money. He's a musician mostly. He's in college studying music, which he takes very seriously and I think that is something that he will concentrate on in the future.

    Eye   Thinking  
    "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.
  • I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

    Fun   Believe   Reading  
    Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.
  • World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

    World  
    Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com
  • Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

    Two  
  • Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

    Reading  
    Source: www.writersdigest.com
  • In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

    Pastime  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

  • Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

    Pastime  
    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317
  • I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  • Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

  • Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

    Pastime  
    George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

    Reading  
  • I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

    Art   Believe   Home  
    "'Dark Knight' director Christopher Nolan calls movie theater attack 'savage,' 'devastating'", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2012.
  • I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

    Reading  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.46, Transaction Publishers
  • Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

    Book   Reading  
    Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.209, Vintage Canada
  • I've had a lot of consoles as a kid so there has always been something that I've done as a pastime or with friends and for personal enjoyment. I don't play many sports so it gives me an opportunity to have that same competitive feeling and the same reward when you win but using different techniques. It's much more mental.

    Sports  
    Source: www.justjared.com
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