Lazy famous quotes

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#People #Lazy #Cinema

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Writing #Lazy

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
-- Adam Carolla

#Lazy #Vote

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
-- Ajay Devgan

#Media #Effort #Lazy

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
-- Al Madrigal

#Writing #Hands #Lazy

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
-- Albert Brooks

#Dog #Lazy #Acting

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
-- Alexander Pope

#Being Strong #Exercise #Lazy

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
-- Alexandra Kerry

#Thinking #Lazy #Trying

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Class #Giving #Lazy

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Lazy #Three #Action

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
-- Allen Carr

#Believe #Lazy

Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.
-- Allison Mackie

#Monday #Sunshine #Lazy

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity
-- Amin Maalouf

#People #Lazy #Together

I'm just really a lazy homebody.
-- Amy Brenneman

#Lazy #Homebodies

I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.
-- Amy Schumer

#Lazy #Together #Cameras

I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Lazy #Fighter

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Summer #Struggle #Lazy

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
-- Ann Reed

#Writing #Lazy #Rhyme

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
-- Anne Frank

#Giving #Lazy #Wish

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Food #Oil #Lazy

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Oil #Lazy #Cost

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Shoes #Lazy #Devil

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
-- Asafa Powell

#Thinking #Years #Lazy

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
-- Ashley Judd

#Thinking #Giving #Lazy

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

#Lazy #Actresses

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
-- Ava Gardner

#Taken #Lazy #Acting

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

#Lazy #Laziness #Complacent

Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Lazy #Annoying #Lied

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
-- Ben Bradlee

#Thinking #Editors #Lazy

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Lazy #Acting #Film

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Work #Lazy #Laziness

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

#Lazy #Laziness

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Lazy #Stride

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.
-- Bruce Lee

#Believe #Guy #Lazy

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Names #People #Lazy

It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.
-- Camille Paglia

#Forever #Making Love #Lazy

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
-- Campbell Scott

#Work #Lazy #Laziness

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Stupidity #Lazy #Study

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Drinking #Ideas #Lazy

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
-- Charles Evers

#Believe #Lazy #Laziness

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday
-- Charles Petzold

#Design #Lazy #Aversion

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!
-- Charlie McDermott

#Lazy #Sometimes

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
-- Che Guevara

#Intelligent #Lazy #Organized

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
-- Cher

#Stupid #Lazy #Records

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
-- Chris Cleave

#Bad Day #Giving #Lazy

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
-- Chris Hemsworth

#House #Personality #Lazy

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Stupid #People #Lazy

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

#Years #Hip Hop #Lazy

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Lazy

This is no lazy mans field
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#Lazy #Fields #Advertising

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
-- Corey Taylor

#Thinking #Lazy #Generations

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
-- Cyril Connolly

#Wisdom #Thinking #Lazy

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
-- Daisy Donovan

#Mean #Work Out #Lazy

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Lazy #May #Common

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
-- Dan Deacon

#Zero #Lazy #Dollars

We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.
-- Dana Spiotta

#Long #Lazy #Afternoon

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis

#Giving #Mind #Lazy

The bagger is the technique of lazy.
-- Daniele Bagnoli

#Volleyball #Lazy #Technique

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
-- Darryl Sutter

#Hockey #Player #Lazy

Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.
-- David Bayles

#Art #Hands #Lazy

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.
-- David Chang

#Men #Lazy #Trying

In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.
-- David Deida

#Stress #Men #Lazy

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
-- David Hume

#Lazy #Lively #Stills

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
-- David Mamet

#Two #Lazy

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
-- David Millar

#Team #Lazy #Legs

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
-- David Morrissey

#Thinking #Lazy #Bed

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
-- David Sedaris

#Accomplishment #Lazy #Mind

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.
-- Dean Winters

#People #Lazy #Television

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
-- Dennis Potter

#Thinking #Names #Lazy

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
-- Donna Leon

#People #Lazy #Trying

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Lazy #Way #Chaos

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
-- Douglas MacArthur

#Broken #Lazy #Made

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 #Research

The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
-- Eden Sher

#Hair #Lazy #Cases

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
-- Edward Albee

#Lazy #Theater

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds

#Prayer #Men #Lazy

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Work #Effort #Lazy

For the lazy, all work is difficult.
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

#Lazy #Laziness #Difficult

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Sleep #Math #Lazy

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.
-- Ellen Barkin

#Years #People #Lazy

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.
-- Elsa Barker

#Lazy #Mind #Wish

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
-- Erma Bombeck

#Lazy #Literature #Housework

Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.
-- Eva LaRue

#Moving #Lazy #Body

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.
-- Evan Esar

#Men #Light #Lazy

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.
-- Evan Esar

#Men #Wife #Lazy

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
-- Evan Esar

#Men #Lazy #Trying

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
-- Felicity Kendal

#Opposites #People #Lazy

A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Ideas #Expression #Lazy

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
-- Francis Crick

#Strong #Reading #Lazy

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
-- Francis Crick

#Math #Lazy #Logic

I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!
-- Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

#Home #Giving #Lazy

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
-- Gary Ackerman

#Media #Lazy #Checks

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
-- George Jones

#Drinking #Character #Lazy

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
-- George Karl

#Basketball #Fighting #Lazy

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself
-- George Polya

#Hard Work #Lazy #Principles

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.
-- George Sandys

#Men #Lazy #Ignorant

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.
-- Georges Simenon

#New York #Night #Lazy

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
-- Georgette Heyer

#Girl #Lazy #Social Work

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.
-- Ginn Hale

#Community #Alcohol #Lazy

Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment.
-- Gordon Willis

#People #Lazy #Directors