Dennis Skinner Quotes

I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Life's too short for chess.

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

When I'm sat at 45 and retired, I want to look back and see what I've done and that I've played games rather than having come to the end of my career and tailed off.

Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

I thought I might spend the rest of my time on golf. But thinking about it now, I'm happy playing whenever I have some downtime in my busy schedule, and even if I had all the time I wanted to play, my score probably wouldn't be very good.

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

What we love to do we find time to do.