Lazy Quotations

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

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

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. The Other Guys was not lazy.

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

My skin is really sensitive, so I don't use too much on it. I'm actually really bad at washing my face. I get so lazy at night so I usually buy the Neutrogena wipes and it gets all the makeup off and its easy and that's the way to go. I hate washing my face, so I always use the wipes.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.