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Busy Quotes

Well, don’t just stand there. God’s a busy man!

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 Film).

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.’

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 4, Nick Carraway has this phrase running through his head after hearing Jordan tell the story about Gatsby. Every character in the novel, it seems, fits into at least one of these categories.

I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.

– Hasso Plattner

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

– Henry David Thoreau

Error is always more busy than truth.

– Hosea Ballou

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

– Hugh Shelton

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

– Gary Speed

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

– Howard Stern

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.

– Gunter Grass

I still get called ‘a stick of dynamite’ or ‘pint-sized dynamo,’ stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren’t many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

– Garry Hynes

Painting’s not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

– Grandma Moses

My brain is just so busy. I’m inattentive; I’m a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

– Hannah Gadsby

As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I’ve been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

– Genelia D’Souza

I like to keep busy.

– George Wendt

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

– Henry David Thoreau

We didn’t sleep last week – we literally didn’t sleep – because we’ve been so busy with the book.

– Hansie Cronje

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

– Henri Nouwen

I suppose after ‘Four Weddings’ I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, ‘I’m burning to be an actor. If I don’t act, I’m not alive.’ I’ve never had that.

– Hugh Grant

A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn’t bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you’re not making that much money.

– Harry Morgan

As a director you’re always so busy – you’re go, go, go, you’re always moving, moving, moving – so I’m not actually privy to all the weird stuff that’s happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that’s what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.

– James Wan

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

– John Donne

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

– James Weldon Johnson

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

– Jeremy Bentham

I don’t get dressed up every day. I’m very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a ‘fashionista.’ I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I’m running around in jeans.

– Iris Apfel

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

– James Gleick

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

– John Dryden

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, ‘I feel like I should go?’ You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

– Jami Attenberg

I’m in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

– Isabelle Adjani

I’m always busy, but I’m lazy as well.

– Jeff Bridges

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