Lazy Quotes

• Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Lazy

• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

  

  John Hurt
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Lazy

• I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Lazy

• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Bad

• It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

  

  Leslie Charteris
  • Lazy

• I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

  

  David Shields
  • Truth
  • Silly
  • Lazy

• Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Music
  • Car

• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

  

  Bob Hope
  • People
  • Lazy

• There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Hate
  • Lazy

• Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Action
  • Lazy

• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Men
  • Practice

• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Lazy

• For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Live
  • Lazy

• I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Feelings

• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Evil
  • Justice
  • Modern

• I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Lazy
  • Prolific

• Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

  

  Craig Parker
  • Coffee
  • Hobby
  • Hanging Out

• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  

  Peter Temple
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Personality

• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

  

  Chuck D
  • Control
  • Lazy

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