Personal Habits Quotes

“I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.”

“Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.”

“There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!”

“I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.”

“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.”

“We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.”

“White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.”

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.”

“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”

“I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.”

“Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.”

“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.”

“I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.”

“I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.”

“I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.”

“normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.”

“That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.”

“I spend a lot of time reading.”

“I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.”

“Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.”

“I'm kind of a night owl.”