Lazy Quotes - page 18

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. (Theodore Zeldin)

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Julian Barnes

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

Paul Hogan

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

James Spader

It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but without the lazy shortcuts of someone born to it.

Dan Simmons

I can be a lazy dresser.

Michael Sheen

In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

Kid Cudi

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Jesse Jackson

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

Gillian Schieber Flynn

The "Meat” were there because of REAMDE, which had been present at background levels for several weeks now but that recently had pinballed through the elbow in its exponential growth curve and for about twelve hours had looked as though it might completely take over all computing power in the Universe, until its own size and rapid growth had caused it to run afoul of the sorts of real-world friction that always befell seemingly exponential phenomena and bent those hockey-stick graphs over into lazy S plots. (Neal Stephenson)

You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.

John Wyndham

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Jason Biggs

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat.

Don Marquis

The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.

Irving Babbitt

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

George Orwell

Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated-the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight.

Conrad Black

I'm pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

Reggie Watts

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV! (Helen Mirren)

There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies.

Benjamin Franklin

The use of cliché [is] the use of ready-made, prefabricated formulas designed to give those who are too lazy think the illusion of thinking.

Northrop Frye

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

So, when my Days of Impotence approach, And I'm by Pox and Wine's unlucky chance Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of debauch On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance;My Pains at least some Respite shall afford While I behold the Battles you maintain When Fleets of Glasses sail about the Board, From whose Broad-sides Volleys of Wit shall rain.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

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