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The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons.

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.

I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn,

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

We came out a little slow and lazy tonight in the first half. The kids read the newspapers. They know it's a game they're supposed to win and that's how we played. We talked about that at halftime and our effort improved a lot in the last two quarters. The kids played well in the second half.

We let it slip and it's hard to get a handle on exactly how it did slip. We got the first goal, and then going into the third 2-2 it's anyone's game. But you can't gamble. You have to play percentage hockey and do things right. We got a little lazy and they got the momentum.

I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Yell at them for what? For not getting a hit? When they quit trying and get lazy I'll yell at all of them.

And they weren't good, hustle fouls, ... They were fouls we were getting 'cause we weren't hustling. Lazy fouls. So we've got to pick it up on that end.

Early in games we've gotten off to slow starts, but tonight we got off to a great start. In the second quarter we kind of got lazy a little bit and they capitalized on it. But the fourth quarter has been our quarter early in the season in terms of hitting our shots and executing our plays, and that's something that we did tonight.

Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.

What Robbie needs to learn is to concentrate every single pitch, every single inning. That will come in time. He's a good kid and he wants to learn, that's encouraging. He is definitely not lazy. That's one word I heard used about him when I came here -- lazy -- but I haven't seen it.

Every genre of music has a scene down here, whether it's kids downloading it and listening in their bedrooms or going to clubs and hearing it. The problem with i.d.m. is that no one wants to go out and see it. I'm not sure if that's because there's not a venue for it, or they're just lazy bastards that don't want to spend three bucks for a beer.

Every sport in this school is down. Kids don't want to get off their butts and go do something. Kids are getting lazy and you can't afford that in a small school.

The third quarter I was a little disappointed in us giving up second chances and getting lazy on close outs. They clamped down a little bit in the fourth quarter.

The tick up in oil prices hurts, but history has shown that interest rates have a much bigger impact on the stock market than oil. And looking at the ISM services number, you're seeing the kind of gradual, lazy improvement in the economy that's not going to really get rates going.

It was a lazy pitch caused by lazy defense.

You have to score the first goal in that situation so they have to come out and play you straight up. We got lazy on defense and gave them a freebie.

Broadband access and an ever-growing volume of Web content make the Internet a tempting go-to place, and they are likely drivers behind this changing Web surfing habit. People can break up their workday by snacking on the Internet at their desktops. Or they can kill a little waiting time by browsing the Web through their cell phones. Or they can fill a lazy few hours just going online to see what's up.

Even the learned ones avoid people who are lazy because they know their efforts will go futile.

The thing about Henrique is that he's kind of a lazy guy, but when it comes to racing, he's got this intense pride. The guy doesn't like to lose.

That 15 hits, you should win ball games with 15 hits. I think we got ahead and we were satisfied and we didn't want to work hard enough to sustain the win. We got a little lazy defensively and, all of sudden, we're in trouble.

Offer the lazy an egg, and they'll want you to peel it for them

Offensively, it wasn't there. We cheated the plays. We cheated our cuts. We weren't aggressive. We were lazy with the ball.

There have always been a lot of exclusive licenses and sometimes the publisher cuts some corners or gets a bit lazy and the quality goes down.

We have 11 grandchildren and two of them have been afflicted with lazy eye.

Defense was the key. We were lazy before the game, but at halftime, we didn't look back, we looked ahead.

The mistake was mine. I was either too dumb or too lazy or too distracted, and I let it go by. It certainly was insensitive and I'm sorry it happened.

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

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

A lot of people still think that curlers are a bunch of big fat lazy guys, but it takes an athlete to come out and win. There are always questions about it.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport, ... Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in. But they don't know Francis' story, which is why the movie was made in the first place: To bring back this amazing tale so that people could be educated about how interesting it was. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. Francis was a caddy. He grew up across the street from the course, looked up to Harry Vardon (played by Stephen Dillane in the film), this five-time British Open champion but he was never allowed to play.

Some people read because they are too lazy to think.

There was a lot of activity here. And it wasn't just a settlement of rich gentlemen who were lazy and didn't work and didn't know how to exist in the wilderness.

There's nothing I can say about that. There was no pressure. I went up there lazy and didn't concentrate.

We've decided that cutting residents' weeds is not a good idea because unfortunately we have a lot of people who get lazy ...

Why do I like racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal.

We got lazy and we got away from our systems. We did it before in the first round and we've done it in this round. We've lost our focus and to me that isn't acceptable for a team that won 30 games this season.

We got lazy at the end and it almost bit us,

We got lazy with our defense and rebounding after jumping out to an early lead. After a halftime talk, we played harder and picked up the intensity in the second half.

You say: "I don't know much about your firm, but I thought I'd contact you anyway." Investor thinks: "You're a lazy idiot--why are you wasting my time?

You say: "I'm bright and ambitious." Investor thinks: "That's a relief because I usually invest in stupid and lazy people.

This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; it is because they have been asked to manage and administer a tax code that has become impossible,

I let it grow every winter and get it cut in April or May. I'm too lazy in the off-season to get it cut.

I'm too lazy to work my real job. I love what I do. I've been doing it for 26 years.

I kind of had a lazy eye and nobody had an answer for my mom. When I was 15, while on the Douglas High School ski team, I fell skiing and had blackened eyes. The pressure in my left eye was tremendous.

I had a bunch of tired girls tonight, and I challenged them in the locker room to step up, play through this and play tired. Our goal was to be 5-0 at this point, and they could have gone out there tonight and been 5-0 or been 4-1. If they wanted to come out and play lazy and slow and not want to be there then that is what they were going to get.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean, ... If I hadn't changed, things probably would catch up with me.

In the first 5 minutes and 18 seconds we weren't very good. We haven't played in two weeks. We took a couple of lazy penalties. They moved the puck around pretty well and scored two power-play goals. We kind of settled down after that.

Students aren't knowledgeable, and are probably lazy and procrastinate, so they cheat. These are crimes based on a lack of knowledge. It's a terrible character trait to develop.

Once she puts together the entire package, she could be one of the best players to come out of Albuquerque. But she still has a lot to work on. She doesn't always move well without the ball, she gets lazy at times and picks up silly fouls.

It's pretty short. We're pretty lazy about these kinda things. Marching long ways isn't really our thing.

That's definitely the frustrating part, because my game depends a lot on my movement and on my footwork. I feel lazy out there because I'm not capable of ... how I normally move. I feel like I'm just using my arm out there.

The fact you don't pay tax on the interest is important, but there is still a great deal of choice. What kind of Isa you go for will depend how lazy you are about saving, whether you want to leave you money in long term or whether you want instant access to it.

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

But I think resolution is cheap and for lazy readers. Real life doesn't have that resolution. It's probably never going to be in my nature to deliver a proper ending.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

Chances are you haven't noticed some of the scenery around you. On a pretty day, instead of spending a lazy afternoon in front of the TV, hit a nature trail instead.

He's worked very well, except for his last one, when he went slow by himself. When he goes by himself, he's a little on the lazy side.

I don't really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it's always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I'm too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

All those turnovers in the first half set the tone. We were lazy with the ball and you've got to take care of the ball to win down the stretch.

The Fox years have accelerated the process . . . because there's an animus for Fox as well as for me, ... It's intellectually lazy to attack me at this point. I've been parodied by four decades of Saturday Night Live: Who's going to beat Jim Carrey? Just run with the lemmings and put down Geraldo.

You've got to pay attention all the time when you're in the pen with Ned. He hasn't settled down like an old lazy veteran.

This is a lazy person's idea of hunting. They drive right up to the animal.

These guys going off the trail, seeking to get deeper into the backcountry and being lazy about it, disturb elk habitat. It makes a miserable experience for everyone, ... Starting your hike in the dark is absurd, because you're chasing elk out. You want to be walking into elk country when you can see them in your scope. There's no need to start walking until a minimum of 15 minutes before you can shoot.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

I'm actually really lazy. I tell myself, "Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. ..." I'll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows.

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.