I don’t want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. – Greta Garbo
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. – Hannah Arendt
The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like – maybe just eating, hanging out and talking. – Heather Graham
In Doing Nothing It is awfully hard work doing nothing. – Oscar Wilde The Importance of being Earnest, Algernon, Act 1.
In Doing Nothing A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
Just because you get to a certain number doesn’t mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It’s like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse. – Iris Apfel
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. – Denis Waitley
Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future. – Jason Bateman
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing. – George Kotsiopoulos
Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another. – Alan Wilson
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. – John le Carre
I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. – Jerry Seinfeld
Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley
Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering. – A. A. Milne
There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it – even if only to crack their friends up – has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That’s the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats. – Clay Shirky
There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me… We spend our lives doing nothing for each other. – Bing Crosby
They’re reacting and that’s wonderful. It’s better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react – do whatever’s in your power to move the audience, and if that’s where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. – Alice Cooper
As state and federal lawmakers debate the country’s energy policies and Colorado’s role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let’s hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health. – Bob Beauprez
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn’t get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents’ house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I’d like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald’s. – Adam Driver
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don’t want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that’s when I started to dance. – Austin Mahone
WCW wasn’t what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they’re used to doing nothing. – Bobby Heenan
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. – Abdul Qadeer Khan
