Natalie Babbitt Quotes

I get bored in Hollywood.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

I don't get bored.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I hate getting bored.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh.

I love visiting my friends because it makes me feel normal.

Variety is the key to not being bored.

We never want the audience to get bored.

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her. And if anybody is reading my story, I want them to be not only reading the story, but I want them to feel they're having fun; that they're enjoying it. So any way you can make it more informal, more fun-filled, more amusing - instead of just a dry story that goes on and on - if there's any way to do that, I like to try and do it.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.