J. J. Cale Quotes

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I don't like not being busy.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

I am capable of being idle.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.