Lazy Quotes

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

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've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

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

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

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

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

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

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

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

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.

Programmers can be lazy.

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.

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.

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

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

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.