I have a lot of interests.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
I have a lot of random hobbies.
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
