George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax... it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

I hate getting bored.

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.