#Hobbies Quotes

“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”

“The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

“Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.”

“Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.”

“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.”

“I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge”

“music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.”

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

“I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.”

“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”

“I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.”

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

“I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.”

“I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.”

“For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.”

“I always get very calm with baseball.”

“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

“I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.”

“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.”

“I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.”

“In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.”

“One of the things that I do to relax at the end of the day is I read recipes.”

“I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.”

“I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.”

“I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.”

“I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.”

“I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.”

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby”

“I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.”

“I play piano every day. I enjoy that.”

“Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.”

“It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.”

“I really like to play and use a good part of my free time involved in football, even through esports.”

“I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.”

“He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.”

“There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.”

“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”

“I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.”

“Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.”

“Bridge is the king of all card games.”

“Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.”

“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 don't generally read a lot of fiction.”

“Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.”

“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”

“Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.”