Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergey Galitsky

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

Bret Easton Ellis

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.

Jason Biggs

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

Edward Norton

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Barbara Hershey

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Asia Argento

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Bear Bryant

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Bernard de Mandeville

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Greg Anderson

When your friend and best client asks you to help his friend, you do it.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Odeya Rush

Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Jared Diamond

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Brian Littrell

I snore. Just ask the others!

Kim Shaw

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

Larry Fitzgerald

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.