Jonathan Ames Quotes

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I'm a romantic slob!

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

I am like that guy on the 'Odd Couple,' and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

How few care about such things.

I don't know where my phone is half the time.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

I've got no attention span.

I am an immature person, and I am very lazy, too.

I used to goof off a lot.