Lazy Quotations | Page 4

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.

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?

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

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

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

Humankind above all is lazy.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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

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

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.]

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

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

Diet food is for lazy people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.

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.

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Programmers can be lazy.

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

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

I can be a lazy dresser.

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

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?'

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)

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

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

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.

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.

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

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

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 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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

The lazy are always wanting to do 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.

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.

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

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.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.

I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.