1.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley
A pastime a day keeps the tedium at bay.
2.
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
William Osler
No person is truly content or secure without a pastime.
3.
It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.
Lights
It's difficult to break free when your passion is your occupation.
4.
Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.
Stefan Sagmeister
'Pastimes are for those who dislike their current activities.'
5.
My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping.
Jessica Jung
My forte is slumbering and my pastime is also snoozing.
6.
Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
Warren Buffett
7.
It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.
Armin van Buuren
8.
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
William Sanderson
9.
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
Dorothy Draper
10.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
Fran Lebowitz
12.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Laurell K. Hamilton
14.
If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.
Vincent Connare
15.
Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies
Rick Riordan
16.
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
Frederick Franck
17.
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
Brian Lumley
18.
It's nice to just do my hobby and be able to live.
Gold Panda
19.
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
Dave Barry
20.
If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
Jon Stewart
21.
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.
Dick Trickle
22.
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
Pierre Bourdieu
23.
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.
Anthony Hopkins
26.
Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation
Wiz Khalifa
27.
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
Harry Connick, Jr.
28.
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
Warren Buffett
29.
I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
George Carlin
30.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
George Carlin
31.
We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.
Robert Anderson
32.
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
Stephen King
33.
If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
Ronald Dunn
35.
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
37.
A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.
Leo Beenhakker
38.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson
39.
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
Bob Ross
40.
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Anais Nin
41.
Recently I began to feel this void in my life, even after meals, and I said to myself, "Dave, all you do with your spare time is sit around and drink beer. You need a hobby." So I got a hobby. I make beer.
Dave Barry
42.
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
Elliott Erwitt
43.
My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
Nancy Kerrigan
44.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana
45.
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
Steve Martin
46.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today.
Dale Carnegie
47.
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
Akira Toriyama
48.
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Satyajit Ray
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot
50.
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic