Joanna Russ Quotes

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

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

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.