Hobbies famous quotes
05-13-2025
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Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
-- Akira Toriyama -
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
-- Aldo Leopold -
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time
-- Alec Waugh -
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
-- Amy Jo Johnson -
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
-- Amy Sedaris -
Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.
-- Amy Sedaris -
Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
-- Andrew Stanton -
TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.
-- Andy Cohen -
Without Visitors who are enticed to take action when presented with your offers, all you have is a hobby.
-- Andy Jenkins -
Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
-- Andy Serkis -
A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.
-- Anne Stevenson -
It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.
-- Armin van Buuren -
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
-- Arthur D. Levinson -
A secret talent or hobby Hmm I weirdly collect shot glasses.
-- Austin Mahone -
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
-- Betsy Byars -
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
-- Bill Wyman -
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
-- Bob Ross -
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
-- Brandy Norwood -
Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
-- Brian Lumley -
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.
-- Carey Lowell -
I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.
-- Carson Kressley -
I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.
-- Cecily Strong -
Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.
-- Christian Slater -
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
-- Clifford Stoll -
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.
-- Courteney Cox -
The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising
-- David Ogilvy -
Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.
-- David Penhaligon -
I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.
-- David Rees -
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
-- Dean Kamen -
The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.
-- Derek Landy -
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
-- Dick Cavett -
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.
-- Dick Trickle -
It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.
-- Dick Trickle -
My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.
-- Dick Vermeil -
Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.
-- Don Peppers -
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
-- Dorothy Draper -
You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
-- Duane G. Carey -
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
-- Edward Abbey -
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!
-- Ellen Glasgow -
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
-- Eric Church -
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
-- Felicity Jones -
I have only one real hobby - my husband.
-- Florence Harding -
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
-- Fred Reed -
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
-- Frederick Franck -
I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
-- Geddy Lee -
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.
-- George Eliot -
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
-- George Santayana -
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
-- George Santayana -
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
-- Henry Rollins -
But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.
-- Heston Blumenthal -
I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.
-- Hugh Dancy -
Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.
-- J.R. Ward -
I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
-- Jenni Rivera -
I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.
-- Jennie Garth -
What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.
-- Jennifer Finney Boylan -
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping.
-- Jessica Jung -
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby...
-- Jimmy Wales -
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
-- Joan Fontaine -
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
-- Joel Osteen -
All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
-- John Mellencamp -
If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
-- Jon Stewart -
I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.
-- Jonathan Ames -
I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.
-- Kelis -
You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
-- Lake Bell -
I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things,
-- Larry Ellison -
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
-- Larry Page -
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
-- Laurie Anderson -
Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.
-- Lil Wayne -
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
-- Linus Torvalds -
I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.
-- M. C. Escher -
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
-- Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
-- Mandy Moore -
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.
-- Mary Roebling -
I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.
-- Mia Maestro
