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Letter "H" » hobbies
«Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.»
Author: Barbara Cheney
| About:
Gardens
| Keywords:
activities, blush, blushes, gardening, hobbies, sociable, sweetness, unseen
«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Love,
Risk
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«My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.»
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.»
«Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.»
«A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints»
«Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
anthology, construction, hobbies, pleasantest, that is to say
«Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. (This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.)»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
although, boring, hobbies, hobby, out of print, print, prints
«Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.»
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