Lazy Quotes

• There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Lazy
  • Temptation

• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • School
  • Eye
  • Lazy

• I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Lazy

• First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Running
  • Walking
  • Basketball

• I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Lazy

• I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

  

  John Goodman
  • Boy
  • Lazy

• Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Lazy

• Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Lazy

• I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

  

  Cherry Jones
  • Work
  • Lazy

• Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Music
  • Lazy
  • Arrangements

• Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

  

  David Bolinsky
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Cells

• I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

  

  Prince William
  • Time
  • Work
  • Cooking

• I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Lazy

• Usually, if you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because that's necessary for development. It's usually because we're being lazy, and we're not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, sustainable way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Environment
  • Lazy

• Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Storm

• I have to watch out for being lazy.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Lazy

• I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Soldier
  • Lazy

• I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Music
  • Bad

• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  

  William Booth
  • World
  • Men
  • Passion

• Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Religious
  • Prayer

• I was a little boy with a patch over one eye, who sang and danced along the street. I had what’s called a lazy eye, so I had to wear the patch. You tend to be a prodded kind of kid when you look like that, but it makes you much stronger in the end.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Boy
  • Lazy

• 'Writer's block' is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Writing
  • Lazy

• Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Age
  • Lazy

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