Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Charles Baudelaire

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Bob Black

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

We are proud to welcome this landmark hotel -- fully restored and offering the latest in amenities and services -- into the Hilton brand. The Hilton Fort Worth continues our legacy of offering hotels of significance culturally or within the community that are designed to help our guests experience all of the enriching leisure or business experiences that travel can offer.

Mark Williams

We are proud to welcome the Best Western Chincoteague Island to our chain. This versatile property offers a quality lodging choice for families and leisure guests traveling to Chincoteague Island, as well as corporate guests serving NASA, the Navy and NOAA. We are happy to raise the Best Western flag at this unique island property.

Dick Clark

We are pleased to be at the forefront in producing what has become the fastest-growing leisure sport activity in the world, ... We look forward to taking the tiger by the tail and moving this marketing phenomenon to the next level -- television.

William Shakespeare

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

There is no other leisure business in the world with the same potential for growth and shareholder returns as online gaming. We're in our embryonic stages.

With this transaction behind us, we can sharpen our focus on our other improvement priorities, such as streamlining our operations and expanding our core businesses in advanced water treatment, water and wastewater solutions, space, defense electronics and leisure marine in order to provide greater potential for growth and profitability. We will continue operating our portfolio toward achieving premier multi-industry performance, with an improved growth profile, increased margins and a more efficient use of capital.

With this announcement, we return to one of the core strengths on which ATA was built -- leisure travel -- while growing in a market that has been historically successful for our company.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Jared Diamond

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Bernard Malamud

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Bill Gates

The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

C. Wright Mills

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

David Riesman

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Antonin Artaud

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

Branch Rickey

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Branch Rickey

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Elfriede Jelinek

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Gunter Grass

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.

I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming Pool, one of the busiest in the region.

What you're seeing is that American consumers are using rental cars in their home towns and neighborhoods for many needs beyond replacements for automobiles that are in the shop. They're renting for corporate and leisure needs, driving vacations, an extra car, or a different kind of car.

Carol brings tremendous knowledge of the group and leisure market in Virginia, and she is eager to return to this beautiful part of the country. We are confident that Carol's extensive hospitality experience and her love of the Shenandoah Valley will make her a welcome asset to both the community and this significant historic hotel.

Business and leisure fares overall are definitely higher than a year ago across the country. But Denver is bucking the trend in the lower direction in both cases.

Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas.

We looked at it simply from point of reaching leisure travelers.