Busy Quotes - page 4

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your son Who's busy with his money games - his women and his gun. (Ian Anderson (musician))
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. View quote
Iris Murdoch
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world. View quote
Edith Sitwell
I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Big Brother isnt watching. Hes singing and dancing. Hes pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brothers busy holding your attention every moment youre awake. Hes making sure youre always distracted. Hes making sure youre fully absorbed. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness. View quote
Ram Dass
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first. View quote
Philip Larkin
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. (Thomas Gray)
Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love. View quote
John Bowring
Someone who says "I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. View quote
Lin Yutang
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good. View quote
Bill Hybels
We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel. View quote
Howard Stern
Riches do not make one rich but busy. View quote
Fernando de Rojas
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. View quote
Bernard Berenson
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours. View quote
John Muir
Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you're not really there when you're taking the picture ‘cause you're too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren't and tell yourself you had a good time. View quote
Dylan Moran
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. (William Faulkner)
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. View quote
Stephen King
He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. View quote
Carl Sagan
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action. View quote
Plutarch