Christopher Morley Quotes

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

I love seeing blank days in my calendar.

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

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

When not working, my days are lazy.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.