A. J. P. Taylor Quotes

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

I like bubble baths.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.

I love to take baths.

Everyone is in a rush in New York, even in restaurants and in cafes. You dont have the serenity. That, I think, is very important in order to read.

I'm very good at relaxing.

Music for me is about relaxing.

My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.

I spent 10 days on the beach and slept pretty much all day, every day. It was the perfect place to have a rest.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.