Steve Fossett Quotes

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

I get very creative when I'm trapped in a plane and I can't do anything else.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.

I would probably lose my mind if I wasn't busy. There's only so many video games I can play.

I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

I don't get to like-watch anything, much less hate-watch. I don't have time for that.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.