Lazy Quotations | Page 4

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

I'm so lazy. I'm on the road all the time working, so when I'm at home, my perfect date is just laying on the couch!

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.

For I must go where lazy Peace Will hide her drowsy head; And, for the sport of kings, increase The number of the dead.

For I must go where lazy PeaceWill hide her drowsy head;And, for the sport of kings, increaseThe number of the dead.

That's one thing about them - they won't give up. This is definitely the toughest team we'll play all year. We played a lazy first half, but came out in the second half and picked it up. I'm proud of them for that second half. They did a good job.

It's something we're going to try, because you never know. I mean, during the season, it could come up where you've got a runner on second and third or first and second, with two outs, and you've been struggling to get out of the inning, and a guy kind of gets lazy off second base - boom, pick him off, inning over.

There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.

You don't want to get complacent, because then you start to look lazy on the field and look like you don't care. I don't think that's something we have, but you never know.

It seems like every single night there's 10 or 12 minors called against us. The reason why? We don't know. Is it because we're taking lazy penalties or is there a different reason? We can't explain it. I don't think anyone knows on this team. . . . We hope we're not being targeted for reasons unknown.

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

It was a slow, lazy game. But, we still won by 20 points on the road. We're not moving the ball too badly on offense, but we need to play better defense.

It's hard work, basically. Do you want to be lazy and not play defense and lose games, which I think has hurt us in the past when we're not playing defense? When we play hard and play defense, you guys see what happens. Scoring is not really a problem for us. It's the defensive end. If we go back and forth the whole game, that doesn't lead to anything.

How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Diet food is for lazy people.

Being comfortable with someone doesn't necessarily mean they feel some deep rooted connection with you, sometimes it just means they're too lazy to impress you any longer than they feel necessary

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

Today's college student is lazy and uninformed

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Humankind above all is lazy.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.'

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.

If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

I had a dog that was so lazy, he had a prerecorded bark.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

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

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.

A loafer always has the correct time.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

I can be a lazy dresser.

Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn’t know for a fact that you’re too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.