Busy Quotes

‘Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.’ – John Lennon

‘Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Beware the barrenness of a busy life.’ – Socrates

‘I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.’ – Kanye West

‘You can really only enjoy life when you’re extremely busy.’ – Josephine de La Baume

‘In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘Get busy living, or get busy dying.’ – Stephen King

‘I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.’ – Lucille Ball

‘Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.’ – Kevin Hart

‘Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.’ – Thomas A. Edison

”Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.’ – Brene Brown

‘I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.’ – Demi Lovato

‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.’ – George Burns

‘Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.’ – Matt Lucas

‘I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!” – Demetri Martin

‘No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Error is always more busy than truth.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.’ – Paul Washer

‘Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.’ – Saint Francis de Sales

‘O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.’ – Abu Bakr

‘Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.’ – James Joyce

‘I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘He not busy being born is busy dying.’ – Bob Dylan

‘Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘I’ve changed my diet a few times. Now I’m trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I’m busy, it’s easy to lose weight.’ – Michael Keaton

‘The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.’ – Seth Godin

‘I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.’ – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

‘Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.’ – Jane Austen

‘The busy have no time for tears.’ – Lord Byron

‘Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.’ – Ram Dass

‘When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘When you are insane, you are busy being insane – all the time.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.’ – Buck Owens

‘If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?’ – Marie Dressler

‘I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘We face many hurdles in our life and somehow we get busy in our hectic schedules and forget how to enjoy our life.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘I’ve always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy – and I had not stopped to become a mommy.’ – Kym Whitley

‘America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.’ – Bono

‘I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.’ – Tom Hardy

‘We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.’ – John Torode

‘The best person to get something done is a busy person.’ – Mark Burnett

‘After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘Just to be spontaneous and free is life’s biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.’ – Morten Harket

‘I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.’ – Andre Maurois

‘I’m busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn’t appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.’ – Steve Albini

‘The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘Yeah, I’m obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I’m rude. You know why? Because you’re busy.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.’ – John Kennedy

‘You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.’ – Dorothy Dix

‘Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?’ – John Donne

‘I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… but I am too busy thinking about myself.’ – Edith Sitwell

‘The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.’ – Vernon Law

‘People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.’ – Tim Vine

‘I have been a soldier and a commander for many years and know how to differentiate between things – not to be busy all the time with the most sensitive matters and to give everything its due attention without having the issues that cause concern to constantly be troubling or worrisome.’ – Benny Gantz

‘I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who’s busy and has too many children, like my mother.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘I didn’t have time to be anybody’s muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.’ – Leonora Carrington

‘A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘I’ve never been truly hammered… Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.’ – Jeff Dunham

‘My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I’m glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘I’ve been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I’ve been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.’ – Ron Perlman

‘So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.’ – Morrie Schwartz

‘I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘It’s good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.’ – Roger Taylor

‘If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it’s like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.’ – Daniel Gilbert

‘It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound… it’s like musical landfill.’ – James Blake

‘If we put people to work and they are busy, we will have less crime.’ – Alexander Lukashenko

‘The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘I was a slow starter. I didn’t really make any dazzling impressions. But I don’t really regret that because I learned a lot along the way. I always kept busy – I found my way my way, and I’m happy about it.’ – Christopher Lloyd

‘I’ve spent a lot of time in Inverness, playing gigs and on a radio tour. I like heading up there because it is very tranquil and a contrast to how busy London is.’ – Nina Nesbitt

‘So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it’s easy to say, ‘Ah, I’ll workout tomorrow.’ But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.’ – Derek Jeter

‘Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.’ – Francis Bacon

‘I do think my old fella wasn’t much of a… I don’t remember him ever being a ‘dad’ dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Painting’s not important. The important thing is keeping busy.’ – Grandma Moses

‘I’m happy to be busy. I’m happy to have a wonderful family.’ – John Williams

‘Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.’ – Jose Marti

‘Life is very busy now. I find that in today’s cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o’clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep!’ – Vladimir Horowitz

‘The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.’ – Jeremy Bentham

‘If we are busy in a hundred good things – even great things, gospel things, glorious things – but don’t sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.’ – Mawra Hocane

‘I’m a very sympathetic person, but that doesn’t always come across in my work because I’m too busy being mad at everything.’ – Lydia Lunch

‘I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.’ – Shirley Bassey

‘Success hasn’t changed me at all. I’m still the same cocky, arrogant guy I’ve always been. The only difference now is that I’m busy all the time.’ – Billy Squier

‘A landline is an anchor – busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.’ – Rainbow Rowell

‘It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘People think New York is crazy and busy, but it’s actually a great place for lazy people to live.’ – Vanessa Bayer

‘My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.’ – Rainer Weiss

‘Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.’ – Erich Fromm

‘One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what’s important to you and how you use your time.’ – Lorne Michaels

‘Prior to having babies, I thought – I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings

‘I love watching people, and that’s what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o’clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they’re talking about.’ – Andrea Corr

‘I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.’ – Bernard Berenson

‘Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he’s too busy to enjoy.’ – Frank A. Clark

‘My sister has seen my father’s love and my brother, but not me. But Maniesh, I didn’t even get love from my brother in my house, because everyone’s busy with their own work. But now, the love I get from my husband has made me realise how a man is supposed to care.’ – Bharti Singh

‘Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.’ – Kourtney Kardashian

‘We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we’re too busy to be bothered with it.’ – Kate Bush

‘I think it’s really important to stay active, even when you’re very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.’ – Jennette McCurdy

‘From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.’ – Dan Rather

‘I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn’t have a formal face-time culture – and I felt empowered by that.’ – Dara Khosrowshahi

‘I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That’s a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.’ – Jake Tapper

‘From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.’ – Tom Ford

‘I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn’t anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that’s a good run.’ – Michael Weatherly

‘You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.’ – Alessandra Ambrosio

‘I’m constantly busy.’ – Norman Reedus

‘It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I’d rather be busy, working non-stop, than being bored at home, you know?’ – Chanel West Coast

‘In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.’ – Anita Brookner

‘One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.’ – Lucille Ball

‘Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don’t do a whole lot. They’re usually very busy doing nothing.’ – Buzz Osborne

‘If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘Here’s what I’ve learned about raising boys… if you keep ’em busy, they’re fine. You let ’em get bored, they’ll dismantle your house board by board.’ – Kenny Rogers

‘Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.’ – Don Marquis

‘I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.’ – Kevin Durant

‘I’m normally the least busy person I know.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there’s more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before ‘O.J.” – Sterling K. Brown

‘My husband Farhan Azmi is a restaurateur and owns three restaurants in Mumbai. After we got married, we started planning a cafe, Chai Cofi, and got busy in executing it. It is not easy to open a restaurant. I always wanted to get into the business of restaurants and was fortunate enough that Farhan’s knowledge taught me a lot of things.’ – Ayesha Takia

‘I have met so many of my idols – like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer – all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, ‘Hey man, I’m busy,’ it would have crushed my soul.’ – Drake Bell

‘People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.’ – Florence King

‘Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.’ – George Burns

‘For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.’ – Andre Braugher

‘My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything’s okay and let me know that they’re there for me.’ – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

‘Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.’ – Yakov Smirnoff

‘A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.” – Daniel Goleman

‘Sometimes we are so busy helping others that we forget about ourselves. Remember, it’s okay to say no and to ask others to carry their own weight.’ – Chris Gardner

‘You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It’s so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life’s imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.’ – Rachel Campos-Duffy

‘After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.’ – Mika Brzezinski

‘When I don’t have any story in my mind, I am busy doing foundation work.’ – Sudha Murty

‘Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘You know, a lot of people say they didn’t want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.’ – Johnny Damon

‘Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we’ll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.’ – Ram Dass

‘In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I’m always busy.’ – Ian MacKaye

‘I’m not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn’t think my schedule looked so busy.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘I love smoothies, and the Nutribullet makes it so easy to make sure I get my nutrients in the morning before a busy day filming, hanging out with my family, or exercising.’ – Dorit Kemsley

‘Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.’ – Camille Paglia

‘The music itself is very challenging, so I’ve never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I’m not, then I’m not an incredibly good person to be around. If I’m not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That’s just the way things are.’ – Brian May

‘It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.’ – Linda M. Godwin

‘People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we’re not reading, and in fact we’re not really communicating, either. We’re not talking to each other. There’s just all these screens and wires and technology in between.’ – Lee Smith

‘Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.’ – Horace

‘I juice everything! Whether it’s beet, carrot, or apple, I’ll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I’ll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I’m busy.’ – Misty May-Treanor

‘At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.’ – Yukio Mishima

‘I had lost my son 20 years back, when I was at the peak of my career. I couldn’t really get time to even feel that loss. I used to be continuously busy with work and this would make me feel guilty: I didn’t even have the time to mourn my son’s death.’ – Satish Kaushik

‘What happened was that the doctor told me that I’d ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.’ – J Dilla

‘Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we’ve managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.’ – Kate Bernheimer

‘I’m busy, man, too busy. There’s a lamentable absence of free time.’ – Juan Pablo Montoya

‘People looked up to us for our values and leadership. But today, they laugh as we are busy debating whether one of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal, was actually built by Indians.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.’ – Sue Grafton

‘Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I wanted to remain a bachelor from the beginning, but I got married thrice, and I don’t know why I did it. I think it’s not easy to live with me because of my impatience and busy schedules. Sometimes my mother is unhappy about a few decisions I have taken, but it is completely personal, and I don’t want to make it public.’ – Pawan Kalyan

‘As I’ve told Tyler, there’s not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We’re just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I’ll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.’ – Josh Dun

‘If I’m not hungry and I’m busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It’s informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research.’ – David Andrew Sinclair

‘I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I’d be dead.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.’ – Darell Hammond

‘As moms, we have so much on our plates. We’re busy, and our family depends on us for a lot of things.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘We are usually very busy towards the end of the year, so I know that whenever we get super busy, it must be a sign that the year is ending.’ – Dahyun

‘I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.’ – Kirstie Alley

‘I play guitar and sing when I’m not busy with school and acting.’ – Kaitlyn Dever

‘I don’t have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else’s lap doesn’t just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.’ – John Ortberg

‘I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, ‘Iron to the Fire.’ I like to keep several things going at once.’ – Creed Bratton

‘Honestly, at times, I still get bored. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ kept me busy, and that’s what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I’m meant to be a busy person.’ – Paige VanZant

‘Jet was very busy. I’ve been inspired by a lot of his movies.’ – Jason Statham

‘I’m busier than a busy person. People aren’t scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it’s the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.’ – Jason Newsted

‘I’ve been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.’ – Valerie June

‘And I’ve always – the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you’re too busy worrying about the competition, you don’t focus enough on what you’re doing.’ – Katie Couric

”Time in a Tree’ is a song about when you find yourself in a busy state of mind, which I often find myself in. Sometimes it can feel like you can’t physically get out of it, or you can’t mentally or physically bring yourself out of that… it’s like having traffic in your brain.’ – Jacob Anderson

‘I have one really nice watch. It’s a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of ‘The Office.’ All the guys in the writers’ room were like, ‘Let’s all get a nice watch.’ We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.’ – B. J. Novak

‘I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It’s been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘As busy as I claim to be, I’ve still got the greatest job in the world.’ – Peter Criss

‘I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and… he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop.’ – Julia Fox

‘If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil’s playground.’ – Lisa Marie Presley

‘No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.’ – Stephen King

‘I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.’ – Harper Lee

‘I’m always busy, but I’m lazy as well.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘An entire generation of talented people – engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers – have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.’ – Ralph H. Baer

‘Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, ‘We need him?’ No. He wasn’t. He’s too busy. There’s no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, ‘All right, I like this guy. Let’s give him a shot.” – A.J. Styles

‘The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.’ – Bobby Rush

‘In ‘Bras & Broomsticks,’ Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both… witches! In ‘Frogs & French Kisses,’ Rachel and her witchy family are back – Miri is busy zapping up ways to save the world, while Mom has gone boy crazy and become a magicaholic.’ – Sarah Mlynowski

‘The majority of us don’t do what’s best for us all the time because life is complicated and busy – and creating excuses is so much easier than getting on with the business of wellbeing.’ – Dawn Foster

‘Woe to the man who is always busy – hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate – the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.’ – William Godwin

‘You’ve done it in the simulator so many times, you don’t have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You’re excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.’ – Alan Shepard

‘When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I’d have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can’t change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it’s a part of training that most of us find difficult.’ – Summer Sanders

‘My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.’ – Rachel Joyce

‘My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.’ – Hilary Duff

‘I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.’ – Alberto Juantorena

‘While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.’ – Saint Francis de Sales

‘I had no idea ‘Moon River’ would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.’ – Henry Mancini

‘My work keeps me so busy that I don’t have much time even to interact with my family.’ – Shaheer Sheikh

‘I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It’s a busy kind of life, but I guess I’m lucky.’ – Brian May

‘The food wasn’t very good in the first kitchen I ever worked in. But it was very busy, so I learnt to be fast, absorb pressure, use a knife, and say, ‘Yes, chef.” – Marco Pierre White

‘Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It’s very busy up on the shuttle.’ – Sally Ride

‘Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it’s been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it’s a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.’ – Susan Sarandon

‘My brain is just so busy. I’m inattentive; I’m a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘You don’t make a fortune doing cartoons. It’s a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it’s better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn’t make you rich. It just doesn’t.’ – Patrick Warburton

‘I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, ‘Hello, Gielgud here, any work?’ Good on him. We’ve got to keep working. If we retire, there’ll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.’ – Charles Dance

”Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.’ – Svetlana Alexievich

‘MIA stands for ‘missing in action,’ which is the way others can experience you when you’re too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that’s going on in your head, and, essentially, when you’re too busy being busy.’ – Mark Goulston

‘Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.’ – Katharine Whitehorn

‘A charming woman is a busy woman.’ – Loretta Young

‘Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, ‘Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.’ I’ll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.’ – Allu Arjun

‘When I was young, I kept a book about my performances. It was easier then, because I was not so very busy.’ – Mirella Freni

‘I’ve got three brothers and two sisters. Dad was a plumber who worked really hard to support six children, and Mum was busy at home. The four brothers shared a room, a bunk bed on each side. It wasn’t luxurious.’ – Gareth Barry

‘My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.’ – Kris Jenner

‘Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia – even during times of stress and fatigue.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘I don’t think I have normal days, they’re all a bit strange. We’re always busy, there’s always something going on and I’m always darting around so it’s a busy day.’ – Perrie Edwards

‘Because I’m so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I’m irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.’ – Lionel Hampton

‘As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.’ – Michael Ondaatje

‘I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to go crazy. I don’t party like I used to.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘I’m used to multitasking… I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.’ – Christopher Jackson

‘I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.’ – Danielle Steel

‘We didn’t sleep last week – we literally didn’t sleep – because we’ve been so busy with the book.’ – Hansie Cronje

‘I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.’ – Chip Kidd

‘No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.’ – Lucio Tan

‘When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy – rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.’ – Bobby Davro

‘If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I’m busy so they’ll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that’s very important.’ – Flo Rida

‘We are all busy. It’s easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.’ – Franz Schubert

‘I’m the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.’ – Eli Manning

‘You have to push yourself when you’re older because it’s very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart – you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don’t hurt so much.’ – Iris Apfel

‘It’s good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you’ve got two roles to play at one time, then that’s great to do.’ – Damian Lewis

‘People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.’ – Konstantinos Karamanlis

‘All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.’ – Nellie Bly

‘I love being busy.’ – Dolly Parton

‘After ‘Don’t Play Us Cheap,’ I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.’ – Melvin Van Peebles

‘I’m not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren’t interested in younger men; I don’t have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I’m busy enough already.’ – Katherine Ryan

‘When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘For my father, life was uni-dimensional. Reliance was his life. Yet, some of my most vivid memories are about spending time with him. However busy he may have been, whatever the pressure, Sunday was for his wife and kids. I try to do the same with my family.’ – Mukesh Ambani

‘No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.’ – Kelli Berglund

‘The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.’ – Leon Edel

‘The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.’ – Byron White

‘It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.’ – Marcelene Cox

‘If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness.’ – Gunter Grass

‘Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!’ – John Dryden

‘If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.’ – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

‘When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.’ – Alice Duer Miller

‘Most of the time you’re too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, ‘I work at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and that is so cool.’ – Tina Fey

‘I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.’ – Jane Smiley

‘I’ve tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I’ve found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I’ve been very busy most of my career. I’ve had very few vacations.’ – Rupert Holmes

‘Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.’ – Dennis Wilson

‘People are so busy anyway they don’t see you or recognise you in the street.’ – Andrea Corr

‘We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.’ – Slobodan Milosevic

‘The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you’ve ever seen a space IMAX movie, that’s really what it looks like. I wish I’d had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.’ – David M. Brown

‘The problem is, I don’t think I’ve got too much to offer at the minute. I’m busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it’s like, you’ve got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.’ – Robbie Williams

‘Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.’ – Kathleen Winsor

‘During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected.’ – Everett Dirksen

‘Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.’ – Teddy Wilson

‘I’ve definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don’t understand the schedule, and it’s not that I don’t want to talk to them, it’s that sometimes I am really busy and can’t get back to them.’ – Mila Kunis

‘Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.’ – James Van Der Beek

‘Everybody gets to a stage when it’s time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn’t going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn’t making records.’ – Peter Noone

‘I always find something to keep me busy.’ – Amy Sedaris

‘When I’m on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.’ – Vince McMahon

‘I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.’ – Jim Diamond

‘I don’t think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That’s all right. I’ve never looked for a job in my life, and I’m not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘Keeping busy: This is a problem that you’re glad to have.’ – Michael Winslow

‘If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.’ – Jeremy Jackson

‘I’m friends with Carla Olsen and she’s doing a lot of producing these days. She’s getting quite a little collection of records that she’s produced. She’s real busy.’ – Kathy Valentine

‘I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I’m too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.’ – Laurell K. Hamilton

‘You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron’s text because it’s too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff – it’s funny, it’s nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.’ – H. R. Giger

‘Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming… So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.’ – William Bell

‘Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they’re familiar with.’ – Jeffery Deaver

‘Competition is such a virtue, and everybody’s so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.’ – Major Owens

‘Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.’ – Steve Brown

‘Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I’m terribly busy and don’t have time for a phone interview right now.’ – Chris Kattan

‘I’m used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I’m usually at the rink from 9 a.m.’ – Sasha Cohen

‘Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired – up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.’ – Marie Windsor

‘United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was… to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn’t that amazing?’ – John Astin

‘Well, right now we’re so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they’re 7 and 10 years old.’ – Mark Kelly

‘I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.’ – Jeffrey Hunter

‘Our shuttle crew is four people, because we’re going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it’s been busy.’ – Linda M. Godwin

‘I’ve been awfully busy, and I haven’t gone to many movies.’ – Jeffrey Jones

‘I’m just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it’s a very, very busy week. But that’s the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.’ – Gavin MacLeod

‘I’m in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.’ – Isabelle Adjani

‘I think that I’m busy in the present, and I don’t want to go back. Well, there’s been an unauthorized biography, and you can’t stop them. It didn’t worry me.’ – Albert Finney

‘You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.’ – Aimee Mann

‘So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.’ – Katherine Dunham

‘I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, ‘Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you’re very busy,’ and usually, they will.’ – Arthur Godfrey

‘We’re still working out the details, but I’d be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library – all this keeps me quite busy!’ – Nigel Dennis

‘I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I’m such a slow writer.’ – Martin Cruz Smith

‘He’s looking for the president’s kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I’m waiting for that action.’ – Derek Luke

‘Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen.’ – F. Murray Abraham

‘You are right that I don’t have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.’ – Kiana Tom

‘I don’t go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I’m just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.’ – Lee Ann Womack

‘I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we’d sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.’ – June Carter Cash

‘Comedians don’t laugh. They’re too busy analyzing why it’s funny or not.’ – James Lipton

‘According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.’ – Jeff Miller

‘My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.’ – Margot Kidder

‘I’m too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.’ – Terry Kath

‘My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!’ – Etta James

‘Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.’ – James Nasmyth

‘Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.’ – Charles Hermite

‘These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.’ – Bob Filner

‘Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn’t bother themselves about the past – they never do; they’re too busy.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.’ – Chita Rivera

‘I was too busy looking into Yeltsin’s eyes to notice what was under the table.’ – Lennart Meri

‘I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.’ – Rex Stout

‘I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.’ – Burt Lancaster

‘Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.’ – Hugh Shelton

‘Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.’ – Shelby Foote

‘And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.’ – Umberto Guidoni

‘I’m doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.’ – Dave Lombardo

‘I gotta get working, you know? I’ve been too busy. I’ve been trying my hardest, but it’s really tough.’ – Christy Romano

‘I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.’ – Christy Romano

‘Half the time I don’t even think about it, I just throw something on because I’m so late or so busy.’ – Isaac Mizrahi

‘On tour, you never have a home, you don’t get used to anything, and you’re always super busy.’ – Travis Barker

‘As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.’ – Garth Ennis

‘I mean, it’s been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It’s been kind of difficult.’ – Daniela Hantuchova

‘My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.’ – Mickey Gilley

‘Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn’t live in our small rented home any longer.’ – Kent McCord

‘I suppose all of us – we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you’re not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you’re really busy. That’s the reason to sort of carry on.’ – Jonny Greenwood

‘My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.’ – James Weldon Johnson

‘My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!’ – Sarojini Naidu

‘I was aiming for the cooks that I’ve talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.’ – Sally Schneider

‘You don’t have to stick with these recipes. They’re guides. As I say, they’re a way in. Have fun with them. It’s an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.’ – Sally Schneider

‘Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.’ – Alphonsus Liguori

‘You have to insulate yourself – I’m talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won’t hear ’em – that’s how you write a song. And I haven’t been able to do that over here ’cause I’m so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.’ – Mel Tillis

‘Other projects later this year, but I think it’s going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I’m sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.’ – Jeremy Bulloch

‘It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.’ – Wendell Willkie

‘Since doing the show I’ve been so busy that I’ve not really had time to mope.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘It’s going to be over soon, so I don’t really have time to get busy.’ – Ursula Andress

‘I’ve been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.’ – Minnie Pearl

‘It’s important for moms to have alone time. However, that’s the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that’s the way my mind sees it.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘And it’s very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.’ – Dennis Muren

‘I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.’ – Meryl Streep

‘Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day’s work was done.’ – Rose Schneiderman

‘I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It’s just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.’ – Robert Downey, Jr.

‘Big Brother is watching… look busy.’ – Brandon Boyd

‘I never think too far into the future. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow’s news.’ – Matt Drudge

‘They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.’ – Rita Rudner

‘If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.’ – William J. H. Boetcker

‘The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.’ – Mason Cooley

‘In every death, a busy world comes to an end.’ – Mason Cooley

‘The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.’ – Samuel Butler

‘We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.’ – Howard Stern

‘Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘I’m so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘So this is the space during tutoring hours. It’s very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students’ work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.’ – Dave Eggers

‘I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.’ – John Lasseter

‘You know I used to sit there and I’d go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you’d best believe I’m sleepin’.’ – Scotty McCreery

‘I haven’t seen it this busy since I’ve been an IndyCar driver. So I think that’s a great kind of thing that’s happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it’s an event that I’m very proud to be part of. I love it. I can’t wait to come back next year.’ – Dan Wheldon

‘If bloggers are to improve our public discourse – helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world – it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.’ – Eric Alterman

‘I’m so busy right now, it’s the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘I mean, I don’t really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.’ – Karl Pilkington

‘As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy… the diary is pretty full.’ – Evelyn Glennie

‘When I had a full-time job, I really wasn’t that busy, but now I’m really busy. I guess that’s a good thing.’ – Chris Moneymaker

‘My family are my priority but I’ve always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.’ – Amanda Holden

‘I’m someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.’ – Niki Taylor

‘Being busy with work, and as a mum, I’m a big fan of online shopping.’ – Kirsty Gallacher

‘I was asked to be in the last two ‘Harry Potter’ films and I couldn’t do it because I was busy filming ‘Grey’s Anatomy.” – Kevin McKidd

‘I didn’t watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.’ – Alan Shearer

‘The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don’t change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s use her, she’s hot right now. Let’s do a shoot!” – Danica Patrick

‘Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don’t recognize our own beauty because we’re too busy comparing ourselves to other people.’ – Kelly Osbourne

‘On ‘Sufferer,’ I’m talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: ‘I know you a sufferer, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t or shouldn’t expect any better.’ It’s a lot different than from what I usually say, like, ‘Get busy, shake that thing.” – Sean Paul

‘I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.’ – Michael Imperioli

‘Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.’ – Michelle Malkin

‘Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn’t until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.’ – Paula Deen

‘When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.’ – Tom Brady

‘So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn’t streak or leave you with orange hands.’ – Peter Andre

‘Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.’ – Ryan Seacrest

‘Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.’ – Kathy Ireland

‘Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too busy helping other parents to really care.’ – Jenny McCarthy

‘Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.’ – Aidan Quinn

‘I’m not a coach and I know it. I’m too busy and it doesn’t pay. I’m expensive. But I would always advise.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I love not to be busy in a certain way.’ – Carlos Ghosn

‘I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I’m so busy.’ – Carnie Wilson

‘I’m busy and that’s the way I like it – when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.’ – Craig Charles

‘I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn’t realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.’ – Lorraine Bracco

‘Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that’s my main preoccupation.’ – Louis de Bernieres

‘There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.’ – Andrew Motion

‘Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.’ – Rachel Roy

‘I’m extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.’ – Stephen Chow

‘Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you’re out of work and don’t have anything to balance. I think people assume you’re always busy. You go through dry spells.’ – Marvin Hamlisch

‘Nowadays, people don’t ask you how you are, they say, ‘Are you busy?’ meaning, ‘Are you well?’ If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust ‘Busy!’ to which the person will reply ‘Good!” – Jo Ann Davis

‘I’d like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.’ – Tracy Reese

‘I have busy nights.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn… If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time.’ – Bob Feller

‘Children don’t just play any more – they’re far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you’re actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It’s far better to remain a calm parent.’ – Shirley Henderson

‘I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone’s advantage.’ – Anne Lamott

‘I’m pretty busy.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘I have a very busy personality.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I’m so neurotic, I don’t really think about it. I’m too busy thinking, ‘I hope I don’t screw up my next scene.” – Charlie Hunnam

‘Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don’t bring my work home much. I’m either busy or not busy. And I don’t work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.’ – Jack Dee

‘My parents were very artistic, but busy.’ – Katey Sagal

‘If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.’ – Nate Silver

‘When you’re in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you’re busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don’t have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.’ – Alex Trebek

‘Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I’m never bored. I’ve never been bored.’ – Larry Hagman

‘Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you’re not busy enough.’ – Francois Truffaut

‘I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from – they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.’ – Karl Rove

‘Actually, I’ve never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I’ve always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I’ve been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.’ – Sam Wyly

‘My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I’m told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it’s no big deal.’ – Jane Pauley

‘I was so busy with my studies that I didn’t have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.’ – Andre Rieu

‘I get skinnier if I’m very busy.’ – Candice Swanepoel

‘Apples, grapes… any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.’ – Kristin Chenoweth

‘I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.’ – Alicia Silverstone

‘I love being busy.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘I’m really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I’m doing.’ – Luke Wilson

‘I just always wanted to stay busy.’ – Luke Wilson

‘The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.’ – Phil McGraw

‘When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it’s actually available 24 hours a day, I’m usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.’ – Luke Perry

‘We’re living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It’s a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.’ – Edie Falco

‘I was a busy kid in high school – a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.’ – John Legend

‘I don’t actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I’m pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State’s games.’ – John Legend

‘I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.’ – Angie Stone

‘I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.’ – Angie Stone

‘My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I’m going to take that advice.’ – Angie Stone

‘Given the slow pace of Washington’s bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday’s problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.’ – Fred Upton

‘Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.’ – Nicholas Hoult

‘I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.’ – Sean Hayes

‘My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.” – Mstislav Rostropovich

‘Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we’re told we can do everything – you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.’ – Cat Deeley

‘I’m always the cousin that can’t make it to the family functions because I’m busy.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘I’m a creative person, so I have to stay busy.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I’m taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from ‘Ace of Cakes’ at Duff’s Charm City Cakes. It’s, like, 4 three-hour classes.’ – Busy Philipps

‘I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I’m the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I’m not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I’m just relaxing and enjoying it.’ – Betty White

‘I took the LSAT the day ‘Jersey Shore’ premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘I don’t like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.’ – Carrie Preston

‘Frankly I’m fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.’ – Harlan Coben

‘I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That’s why it’s my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.’ – James Van Der Beek

‘Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!’ – Diablo Cody

‘My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.’ – Jan Karon

‘When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don’t have the resources to deal with it because they’ve been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven’t learned how to sit down and discuss things.’ – Janet McTeer

‘We talk a lot on ‘Biggest Loser’ about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I’m always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘I’m so busy and there’s so much going on, that the gym or a workout can’t be a last minute thought, like, ‘I have nothing to do today I’m going to go to the gym.’ Now it’s, ‘When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?” – Alison Sweeney

‘I like to keep busy.’ – Len Cariou

‘Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.’ – St. Vincent

‘People think it’s suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don’t think that’s true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that’s not true.’ – Dana Spiotta

‘My household is, in a nice way, very busy.’ – Ann Brashares

‘When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.’ – Bonnie Wright

‘I love making music so it’s important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.’ – Michael Kiwanuka

‘Many fans don’t have the leisure time to track my every word. They’re too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.’ – Michael Showalter

‘I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn’t think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.’ – Britt Ekland

‘I’m too busy thinking what I’m going to say next to remember what I’ve said, but my staff tells me I’m sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.’ – Jared Polis

‘With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time – she was a busy woman – but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.’ – Michael Morpurgo

‘Films are tricky because for years you’re getting told you’re about to make it and you’re about to be busy for four or six months or you’re about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you’ve said ‘no’ to many things ’cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.’ – Mike Mills

‘I want to feed my kid something that is real and not processed. It’s hard to do. People are working and busy. The question is: Is it worth it? Is it worth stopping at the farm stand or supermarket to buy fresh ingredients?’ – Tom Colicchio

‘As a busy working mom I’m always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!’ – Angela Kinsey

‘I like to keep busy.’ – George Wendt

‘Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.’ – Sam Neill

‘I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don’t know what I would do. I’m just the kind of person who has to stay busy.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘I’ve got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don’t have the time to work on it right now. I’m way too busy with the ‘Kingkiller Chronicles’ and being a new dad.’ – Patrick Rothfuss

‘I’ve always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I’ve always been really busy. So I said once I’m back in the city and the ‘Sister Act’ stuff dies down, I’m going to get a puppy.’ – Patina Miller

”Desperate Housewives’ is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn’t keep me very busy.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I’ve made I’ve never opened the books. I’ve been too busy.’ – Steve Fossett

‘If it’s a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can’t be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other’s company.’ – Jean Reno

‘If I can stay constantly busy, I’ll be happy.’ – Daniel Cudmore

‘Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.’ – James Dyson

‘I’m my happiest when I’m really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I’m running around frazzled!’ – Lauren Conrad

‘Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!’ – Lauren Conrad

‘My mother smokes me out. We’ll get these long periods of me thinking I’m too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she’ll send me something. My mom’s a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these ‘woe is me’ things. I think she might be Jewish. I’m not sure. She’s Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.’ – Eric Ries

‘I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.’ – Andrea McLean

‘Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can – in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you’re busy you don’t see it coming until you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. It’s a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.’ – Anne Robinson

‘Like most people, I’ve always felt using words like ‘best’ when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished ‘Drown’ was that I got busy living. I’d never travelled, I’d never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.’ – Junot Diaz

‘I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.’ – Armie Hammer

‘I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I’ve kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in ‘Ice Age 4,’ which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called ‘The Scribbler.” – Kunal Nayyar

‘Any actress will tell you – it’s really hard. If you’re not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you’re in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn’t do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.’ – Martine McCutcheon

‘I’m a busy girl.’ – Shenae Grimes

‘I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘I am very busy and don’t have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.’ – Kate Voegele

‘I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won’t give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They’ve always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.’ – Sherrilyn Kenyon

‘In my early twenties, that’s when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.’ – Paula Fox

‘Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written ‘Eragon’ if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework – I wouldn’t have had the time to write.’ – Christopher Paolini

‘Been trading up recently? You have, haven’t you? You’ll be squawking that you’re too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge – come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it’s bigger than its predecessor.’ – Peter York

‘Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.’ – John Lydon

‘Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour’s walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘If the parents are too busy to read, it’s a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn’t matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.’ – Rick Riordan

‘Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.’ – Michael Gurian

‘A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.’ – Neil Strauss

‘There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there’s a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It’s a shame.’ – Neil Strauss

‘You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there’s a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you’re lucky. Time goes by fast, and you’ve got to be busy all the time.’ – Seth

‘While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.’ – J. R. Moehringer

‘I do stay busy. I like new challenges.’ – Kirk Kerkorian

‘I don’t watch any television, hardly ever because I’m so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that’s it.’ – Lisa Vanderpump

‘I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.’ – David A. Stewart

‘I’ve waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, ‘shut up.’ Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.’ – Steve Carell

”EastEnders’ keeps me so busy – that is where I’m at and I can’t see that changing too soon. There’s nothing that has quite got the punch of an ‘EastEnders’ script.’ – Steve McFadden

‘It’s a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it’s a priority.’ – Charice Pempengco

‘I’ve learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.’ – Alafair Burke

‘A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn’t bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you’re not making that much money.’ – Harry Morgan

‘If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that’s done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.’ – Olivier Theyskens

‘I’m not gonna worry about what people think about me. I’m too busy. I don’t give a hoot.’ – Cyndi Lauper

‘Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.’ – Aziz Ansari

‘L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It’s a bit of an island for me – less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.’ – Nicolas Berggruen

‘A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.’ – Gary Speed

‘I’m normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!’ – Poppy Delevingne

‘When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘My dad’s in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they’re really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.’ – Danielle de Niese

‘I love to be busy. I’m envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it’s lingering Calvinist guilt?’ – Moby

‘Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.’ – Peter Eisenman

‘I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings – art is much more ingrained in the culture.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson

‘The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure – and it doesn’t see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘I’m not afraid of hard work. I like it! It’s the other bit – the not working – I find more problematic. If I’m not busy, I just get antsy. I’ve been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me.’ – Pixie Lott

‘My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I’ve taken a vacation.’ – Chip Conley

‘Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don’t care how busy they are.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I’m working.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.’ – Donnie Wahlberg

‘It’s important for moms to have alone time. However, that’s the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that’s the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘Modern women – we’re very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.’ – Akshay Kumar

‘I don’t really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I’m not stuck all the time hanging out.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.’ – Stefon Harris

‘I’ve been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die – and in the end I’d like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.’ – Felix Dennis

‘The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles – decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots – create a ceaseless buzz.’ – Gary Wolf

‘I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.’ – LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

‘I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.’ – Mandy Moore

‘I’ve been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there’s so little time before and after performances to explore where I’m visiting.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.

‘I have a cartoon I’m developing with Adult Swim called ‘Monster Town U.S.A.,’ so I’m busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that’s been requested of me a couple of times. I’m constantly busy.’ – Norman Reedus

‘One day I’m not busy at all; the next day I have work for months – that’s kind of the way it works!’ – Condola Rashad

‘I’m really in retirement. My career is over. I’m just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I’m doing what’s fun for me.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘I learned not to confuse ‘busy’ with ‘productive,’ but I’m still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.’ – Chris Hardwick

‘I don’t really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.’ – Karl Pilkington

‘I always keep myself busy. I’m writing. Or I’m creating something. Or I’m doing stuff with the kids. I’m up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.’ – Natascha McElhone

‘I’m fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! – Romola Garai’ – Romola Garai

‘If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don’t overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I’ve been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.’ – Genelia D’Souza

‘Everybody – even huge movie stars – have downs. That’s just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, ‘Let’s remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.’ So whenever it is that we’re not, maybe it’ll come back again. Maybe it won’t. But you’ve gotta love the ride.’ – Betsy Brandt

‘I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.’ – Kangana Ranaut

‘It’s funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don’t want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.’ – Dave Matthews

‘If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn’t last very long. I can’t go to a museum – I’ll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of… it’s sort of like a domino effect.’ – Emma Watson

‘Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don’t really have a lot of time for activism.’ – Annie Lennox

‘I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!’ – Austin Mahone

‘When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of ‘Shastra.” – Sunidhi Chauhan

‘I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘My career is over. I’m just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I’m doing what’s fun for me.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That’s affected everyone in the industry. I’ve been lucky; I’ve stayed busy. I’ll cross my fingers until it’s my turn to be sitting around, not working. I’m sure that’ll happen, too.’ – Zeljko Ivanek

‘No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn’t change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it’s a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that’s used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.’ – Martha Stewart

‘My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and ‘beauty sleep’ didn’t exist anymore!’ – Marisa Miller

‘I do like being busy. I’m not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I’m not working.’ – Kate Winslet

‘Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I’m really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don’t.’ – Taylor Schilling

‘I love, love, love being an actor – it’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you’re all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?’ – Ani DiFranco

‘I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a ‘big business man’ and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn’t even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.’ – Chrissy Teigen

‘I’m someone who’s always on the go and crazy busy, so I like to keep snacks in my car and at the office, and Cracker Jack’d is a really yummy snack that I love. I definitely am a big snacker.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘I lead a very busy life and don’t have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it’s too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.’ – Kym Whitley

‘I think acting is overrated. I’m not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It’s wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.’ – Nina Conti

‘The real reason Jews don’t have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)’ were all written by Jews.’ – Matisyahu

‘We’re so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. ‘Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let’s laugh at her!’ has become more culturally relevant than, ‘I really love this new Bilal record.” – Patrick Stump

‘For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it’s only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.’ – Robert Shaw

‘In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.’ – Jemima Khan

‘My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!’ – Olivia Holt

‘It’s too bad I’m not a flirt. When I’m on the sets, I’m too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I’ve always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.’ – Stevie Jackson

‘I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.’ – Stevie Jackson

‘My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

‘We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He’d already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.’ – Ian Axel

‘I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.’ – Rudy Vallee

‘When you have little kids, you lose friends because you’re so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.’ – Leslie Mann

‘My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.’ – Robert Osborne

‘The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I’ve even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I’ll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.’ – Bailee Madison

‘I always feel like I’m so busy.’ – Janina Gavankar

‘I don’t really know why I’m so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I’m even busier!’ – Brianna Brown

‘I loved the study of psychology. I didn’t love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.’ – Laurie Helgoe

‘I still get called ‘a stick of dynamite’ or ‘pint-sized dynamo,’ stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren’t many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.’ – Garry Hynes

‘The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.’ – El DeBarge

‘If we are paying attention to our lives, we’ll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and ‘being busy, busy’ that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that – if jumped on – would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I love information. I want to stay current. I don’t want to be under-informed. But I’m busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.’ – David McCandless

‘Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I’d go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don’t have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds – they’re too busy getting on with living.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.’ – Philipp Meyer

‘Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources – psychologists call them working memory and executive control – that we use in nearly every activity.’ – Sendhil Mullainathan

‘Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that’s how they make it all fit.’ – Sendhil Mullainathan

‘You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can’t take a break from being poor. You can’t say, ‘Hey I’ve had enough of worrying about money, I’m just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I’ve recovered.” – Sendhil Mullainathan

‘Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.’ – Shereen El Feki

‘Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.’ – Carl Honore

‘Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate ‘traffic separation schemes,’ but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn’t always work.’ – Rose George

‘I always want to be surprised and just see what’s going to happen next. But definitely next is going to be busy, too.’ – Charice Pempengco

‘I don’t want to bore people or myself – to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely… I wouldn’t change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.’ – Darren Boyd

‘Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.’ – Charles K. Kao

‘Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I’m a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.’ – Jane Clayson

‘I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.’ – Kevin Hart

‘I wasn’t much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.’ – Woody Norris

‘Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.’ – Casey Kasem

‘I love to keep busy. But I never forget it’s the countdown that made it all possible.’ – Casey Kasem

‘I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.’ – Alan Arkin

‘While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.’ – Kathleen Troia McFarland

‘Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, ‘I feel like I should go?’ You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.’ – Jami Attenberg

‘Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We’re busy. I don’t always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they’re light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it.’ – Summer Sanders

‘Here’s what I’ve learned about eating healthy when you’re busy: It’s all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.’ – Summer Sanders

‘My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I’m cruisin’ along and I’ll look at the clock and I haven’t eaten lunch. And I’ll run downstairs, and I’ll start shovelin’ stuff down the pie hole, and I’ll think, ‘That was no lunch at all.” – Summer Sanders

‘I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don’t want to kill him before his next flight! – Catherine Ndereba’ – Catherine Ndereba

‘Some weeks, I’m super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There’s just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I’m onstage, I get another workout.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘I’ve been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I’m not, I’ll get stuck in front of it.’ – Eddie Kaye Thomas

‘Basically, I really like to train. That’s what keeps me busy during the offseason – just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.’ – Wes Welker

‘Being my own boss and working inside an industry that’s not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music – unless you’re managing someone – is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.’ – Kyp Malone

‘If you’re not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.’ – Dexter Fletcher

‘People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.’ – Stephanie Szostak

‘I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that’s really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.’ – Erin Heatherton

‘When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we’re so busy we don’t even pay attention.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.’ – Marie Osmond

‘I try to go to my parents’ house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that ‘family together’ day because we want to. You can’t let work and life get in the way of spending time together.’ – Tahj Mowry

‘I’ve been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, ‘Baby Daddy.” – Tahj Mowry

‘As an actor, you’re never busy enough.’ – Bryan Callen

‘Time is valuable; people are busy.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘Today’s kids aren’t taking up arms against their parents; they’re too busy texting them.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘The man for me has to have his own life or be as busy as me.’ – Estelle

‘Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.’ – Tim Harford

‘My schedule is usually pretty busy, so when I wake up in the morning, first thing I usually do is turn on the TV and watch shows from the night before. I eat breakfast and watch TV and try to wake up.’ – Nolan Gould

‘I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I’m not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.’ – Gary Sinise

‘Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.’ – Steve Whitmire

‘My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.’ – Ashley Wagner

‘I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it’s exciting.’ – Annette Bening

‘It’s always ‘busy’ with four children; it’s chaos.’ – Annette Bening

‘Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who’ve done it need to remember that.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘I’m an atheist, I always thought, ‘This is it.’ If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I’m fairly stoic about death, but I’m not keen on dying if it’s going to be long and protracted. I don’t have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I’m such a little busy bee.’ – Edmund White

‘Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa – wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.’ – J. M. Coetzee

‘The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.’ – Hasso Plattner

‘New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.’ – Raina Telgemeier

‘I don’t like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I’m really busy up there, and I’m really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that’s not something I necessarily want to do.’ – Tom Scholz

‘I’m busy all the time.’ – Thalia

‘I’m too busy for relationships.’ – Rita Ora

‘One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘I go about in the world – free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.’ – Susan Glaspell

‘The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.’ – Aaron Patzer

‘Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.’ – James Gleick

‘While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.’ – Steven Sinofsky

‘I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.’ – Philippe Petit

‘I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That’s pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.’ – Robert Webb

‘Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.’ – James Howard Kunstler

‘I loved ‘Pulling.’ It was so original and hilarious. I remember being very sad when it finished. I’d love to start a campaign to bring it back, but if I did, the actors would probably say, ‘We’re fine. We’re all really busy, thanks. Please don’t!” – Sophie McShera

‘I’ve always been really good at staying busy. Even while I’m working, I’m looking at what the next thing is.’ – Brian Posehn

‘The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you’re busy, for sure.’ – Diplo

‘No matter how long you’d been in the country, if you weren’t in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 – when I was particularly busy filming overseas – you can’t become a citizen.’ – Russell Crowe

‘I want to have a street named ‘Swae Lee.’ It doesn’t need to be a busy street.’ – Swae Lee

‘If somebody doesn’t want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it’s great to be in a city that’s got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.’ – Danny Meyer

‘Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy – they are asleep at the wheel.’ – Nathan Kirsh

‘I directed plays in college. It’s something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I’m a busy actress, and it’s very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It’s a very – it’s a big, big job.’ – Elizabeth Banks

‘The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.’ – David Whyte

‘A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.’ – Kurt Eichenwald

‘My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.’ – Johannes Heesters

‘I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn’t make much of an effort.’ – Jane Green

‘The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they’re not focused on tomorrow… on how elections are won in the 21st century.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘I respond to about a quarter of comments. It’s a good barometer of my mental health – when I’m healthy and busy, I don’t read them.’ – Meghan Daum

‘The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own ‘likes’ to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who’s in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.’ – Meghan Daum

‘I never skipped a meal. I can’t even recall a time when I’ve skipped a meal. I never understand when people say ‘I’m so busy, I forgot to eat today.’ It’s never happened. I always find time!’ – Nikki Reed

‘We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.’ – Richard Li

‘I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.’ – Augustin Matata Ponyo

‘My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy… She used to say to me, ‘Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you’re slightly older.” – Ella Eyre

‘When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, ‘I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I’m busy cooking!” – Betty Williams

‘Everybody is so busy talking about ‘Twittering’ and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don’t talk about creativity.’ – George Lois

‘Life in New York can be so, I don’t know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.’ – Aaron Lazar

‘I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It’s not hustle and bustle and busy, so that’s helpful. We travel all over the world, but I’ve always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You’ll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We’re too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.’ – Terry Teachout

‘The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it’s artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.’ – Tom Bissell

‘I don’t get dressed up every day. I’m very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a ‘fashionista.’ I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I’m running around in jeans.’ – Iris Apfel

‘I’m really busy, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.’ – Gabrielle Aplin

‘I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I’m too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!’ – Jeff Lemire

‘When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book – and really, it was a mid-life crisis – I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn’t want to do this anymore.’ – Fiona McIntosh

‘The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it’s not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you’re busy buying groceries and when you’re fast asleep. It’s a curse.’ – Miriam Toews

‘I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I’d be better. And I didn’t really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.’ – Daisy Ridley

‘Popular kids don’t necessarily know who they are because they’re so busy trying to conform. It’s the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They’re more self-aware, more real.’ – Alexandra Robbins

‘Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, ‘Go outside and look at the night sky. We’ve been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.” – Ellen Stofan

‘The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘When I booked ‘Orange,’ I thought things were going to change a little bit, and I’d be a little more busy, but obviously I underestimated it. I don’t think anyone knew that my character would be taken to so well.’ – Ruby Rose

‘I was excited to come to Australia to shoot for Seafolly because I’ve been wanting to visit since I was young. There wasn’t much time to explore because we were so busy, which happens often during shoots. We had to take a boat to the Whitsunday Islands every day to get to the locations, which was a great way to start the day.’ – Martha Hunt

‘I’ve got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We’d play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.’ – Pierre Boulez

‘For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I’m put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.’ – Letitia Baldrige

‘I didn’t have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.’ – Tommy Lee

‘You’re too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.’ – Annette Curtis Klause

‘Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don’t get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.’ – Chris Raschka

‘I had very busy parents, but I really appreciated having a set of traditions during my own childhood, like consistently celebrating holidays at the same place.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both really busy. A lot of times I’d have to cook for the family; I’d rotate with my siblings. It started out as a chore, but as I got older, my mom started to see that I was really good at it. I became her sous chef.’ – Tia Mowry

‘Being a mom is hard, but I don’t want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.’ – Tia Mowry

‘I have a lot of energy, and if I don’t keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers – it’s scary! My house loves it when I’m working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don’t sit around.’ – Jerry Hall

‘My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief – to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.’ – Stef Wertheimer

‘I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don’t think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.’ – Stef Wertheimer

‘I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.’ – Adam Schlesinger

‘I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.’ – Kate Williams

‘I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.’ – Peter Hook

‘I have two little children. I didn’t want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.’ – Melissa Mathison

‘If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we’re all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the ‘kibbutz.” – Nir Eyal

‘In the United States, we have a large, broad middle that are decent, fair-minded people who are too busy to really think about issues other than their next paycheck. Those are the people that we want to get to in order to change the social climate. And Howard Stern has that audience. So I said, ‘Let’s boldly go where I’ve never been before.” – George Takei

‘Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It’s a technological takeover, and we can’t even see it happening because we’re too busy enjoying it.’ – Rhys Darby

‘While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American – when all of us stand together.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it’s very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one’s very busy.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘I don’t like not being busy.’ – Stanley Tucci

‘Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don’t have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.’ – T. C. Boyle

‘As a director you’re always so busy – you’re go, go, go, you’re always moving, moving, moving – so I’m not actually privy to all the weird stuff that’s happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that’s what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.’ – James Wan

‘The SP-i600 by Samsung with Windows Mobile software provides a great mobile phone experience that allows mobile professionals to be more productive and effectively manage their busy lives with seamless access to their data and the Internet when they are away from the office.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.’ – Tom Graves

‘When I’m not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.’ – Gene Wilder

‘I have found myself under a wave of investigation and criticism from the moment I was elected. Since my first days in the Prime Minister’s Office I have had to fight against evil attacks while I have been busy making decisions on crucial matters related to Israel’s security and existence.’ – Ehud Olmert

‘Our Sunday evenings tend to be quiet and relaxing, and we try to go to bed early before the start of another busy week.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.’ – Stephen Curry

‘I really love being busy because I am – feel like I am at my best when I am busy.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I like to be busy. It’s not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it’s definitely worth the sacrifice.’ – Venus Williams

‘When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don’t think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn’t really have time to focus on anyone else.’ – Ashton Eaton

‘I’ve considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I’ve done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.’ – Tom Reiss

‘The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we’ve made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.’ – Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.’ – Hugh Grant

‘I suppose after ‘Four Weddings’ I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, ‘I’m burning to be an actor. If I don’t act, I’m not alive.’ I’ve never had that.’ – Hugh Grant

‘I love New York. New York is busy. It’s dirty. It’s smelly. I’m a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.’ – David Harewood

‘Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I’m honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a ‘lived-in’ look. It’s alive, it’s vibrant, it’s a little bit dirty, it’s busy, and I loved it. I felt like this was how Rome would probably have been 2,000 years ago. There’s a real bustle, and it’s down and dirty.’ – Paul Hollywood

‘I’m very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what’s going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it’s lovely to sit all around together.’ – Mary Berry

‘We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.’ – Camila Alves

‘If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say ‘I’ll be with you in a few moments,’ so the customer won’t mind waiting.’ – Stanley Marcus

‘I suspect that most retailers are so busy buying goods, taking care of markdowns, and so on that they have too little time to give thought to creativity.’ – Stanley Marcus

‘Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it’s been very authentic, so sometimes I’m super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I’m busy, and I don’t. Sometimes I’m sad, and I post a sad picture.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘During the fashion month, I have a very busy schedule and not much time to dedicate to my hair, but I cannot neglect it if I want to maintain it healthy and always perfect. Taking care of it with the right products while keeping it healthy allows me to wear strong and shiny hair even without having to avoid experimenting new styles and looks.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘I co-produced ‘Boyfriend’ by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth’s album, so I’ve been keeping busy.’ – Mike Posner

‘We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to ‘Lovin’ Feelin’ I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.’ – Bill Medley

‘I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I’m so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I’m just madly in love with.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Even though the agency kept me pretty busy, I auditioned for every play and film I could find. But they all wanted a black American sound, and I just didn’t have it. Finally, I got tired of trotting around and took myself to Paris.’ – Grace Jones

‘I’m a stand-up comic. I’m always doing dates; it’s just that, if I’m working on a project or I’m busy, I can’t get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I’m usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.’ – Wanda Sykes

‘Retire? Never! We are far too busy!’ – Issey Miyake

‘I’m lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.’ – Glenn Danzig

‘I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.’ – Glenn Danzig

‘I’m kind of impatient. I like to see things realized and not just work on a project for three years and wait, wait, wait. I try to keep myself busy.’ – Henrik Fisker

‘The older I get, the less busy I like to be.’ – Jeremy Irons

‘I didn’t realize it at the time, but writing obituaries was one of best jobs that I’ve ever had. After all, it’s the only time that someone will ever laminate my work and put it in their Bible. Plus, let’s be honest, writing obits in Sarasota is a very busy job. The old saying was that old people lived in Miami, but their parents lived in Sarasota.’ – Kathleen Flinn

‘Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.’ – Clay Clark

‘Terry Malick offered me three parts in ‘The Thin Red Line.’ I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.’ – Thomas Jane

‘I’d have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I’m really, really busy, but it’s a lot of fun.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.’ – Eddie Marsan

‘While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.’ – Brad Feld

‘I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I’m not proud of it. I certainly don’t feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.’ – Dawn Steel

‘The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.’ – Peter Bergen

‘My family didn’t really have newspapers at home or talk about politics – my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it – working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.’ – Jo Cox

‘I’m restless. I’m all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It’s something that’s part of my personality since I was a kid.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.’ – Alia Shawkat

‘I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.’ – Johnny Colt

‘I am single and enjoying it. My work is keeping me busy.’ – Jacqueline Fernandez

‘I was the girl that didn’t go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.’ – Bebe Rexha

‘When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.’ – Dove Cameron

‘Nowadays, we have become so busy in our work, especially in our phone, that we don’t go out for workout. It creates a lot of health problems.’ – Armaan Malik

‘I haven’t really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I’m too busy and – not in a bad way – don’t want to waste my time.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.’ – Park Shin-hye

‘When you’re on a roll, you want to stay busy – you want to keep that momentum going.’ – Robbie Lawler

‘I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the ‘Dangal’ offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.’ – Fatima Sana Shaikh

‘My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.’ – Ram Charan

‘I think people who read Internet blogs are usually trying to fit it in during a busy part of their day, and there’s only so much information that you digest. Whereas an experience with a book is a little more comfortable, and I think people are a little more willing to really delve into information.’ – Mick Foley

‘My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were not obnoxious. They were fabulous.’ – Angela Bowie

‘My brother has the potential to become one of the top guys within Strikeforce. He had a very busy personal life; therefore, he wasn’t training as hard as he should, but if he’s going to pick up his training, he will be a danger for every fighter.’ – Alistair Overeem

‘I’m greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I’m happy to be busy.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘I was a big shot in high school – big into social events and at the dramatic society – and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.’ – Don Rickles

‘Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It’s like a skin or a skull, but you don’t know what’s inside.’ – Mario Botta

‘When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn’t think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘I’ve always been ambitious. I’ve always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.’ – RuPaul

‘I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I’ve been busy with other things for a while.’ – Elizabeth Marvel

‘I’ve always been busy, but I wasn’t always successful.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don’t react against it, you’ll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That’s what they want.’ – Raoul Peck

‘I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!’ – Laura Ingalls Wilder

‘I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.’ – Robert Kraft

‘I think being busy is a healthy thing.’ – Taron Egerton

‘I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I’m very busy.’ – Taron Egerton

‘Skydiving is special because it’s almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world – to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.’ – Georgia King

‘I don’t know if I’ll ever feel like I’ve made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as artists, are always wanting more and working towards more and keeping busy. There is just so much that we all want to accomplish, and I just have so many goals that I haven’t met yet.’ – Cassadee Pope

‘Representing the people is not something ‘our’ representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.’ – Paul Craig Roberts

‘My kids need to be around me. And the times that I’m out of town, if I’m not too busy, they can come to me.’ – Future

‘When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.’ – Adam West

‘In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll stop dancing for a bit.’ It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.’ – Payal Kadakia

‘If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn’t be able to write these kinds of song. I’d be too busy doing other things.’ – Jason Isbell

‘I’m never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it’s hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.’ – Alex Morgan

‘I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids’ lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation… life.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.’ – Julie Andrews

‘I’m the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn’t write another book. I’d be so busy collecting awards! I’d be posing for the cover of ‘Vanity Fair!” – Ann Coulter

‘Pac get busy. People can’t take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.’ – The Notorious B.I.G.

‘I’m basically useless in interviews because I don’t remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I’m like, ‘This is great!” – Gaby Hoffmann

‘Post-‘Daily Show’ has been so busy, which I’ve been surprised about. We’re basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you’re worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.’ – Jessica Williams

‘When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.’ – John Dickerson

‘I’m going to get controversial here and say that monogamy isn’t natural, especially not for men. It’s a concept society birthed a few hundred years ago, even though men’s DNA is busy telling them to spread the seed.’ – Jameela Jamil

‘Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.’ – Erin Foster

‘As a player, you experience so many different moments, but you never truly sit back and reflect on them. You enjoy them, but with the championships, we were so busy celebrating with everyone that we didn’t really realize what we had accomplished as individuals and as a team.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘There’s so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That’s about it. I enjoy what I do. I’ll stay busy. I’ve been lucky.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin

‘I’d been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs – actually not doing anything very constructive. I made one little solo album in my garage.’ – Christine McVie

‘I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.’ – Sam Shepard

‘As a kid, I know that most of my parents’ friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.’ – Paul Rudd

‘I am tired of seeing real criminals, with lots of victims being ignored, while traditional law enforcement is busy going after perpetrators of victimless crimes such as those involved in the Silk Road Marketplace.’ – Roger Ver

‘As an actor, you’re never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.’ – Robert Picardo

‘I’ve spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘We’re busy people; we need media that’s multitask-able. I want games I can play while I’m watching television. 70% of Americans are on the Internet while they watch TV. We all multitask now, and we need media to reflect that.’ – Mark Pincus

‘I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.’ – Annie Wersching

‘Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘The Rykiel woman? She doesn’t have time to stop time. She’s too busy running. In her hands she’s carrying a tote, a baby, a book, a camera.’ – Sonia Rykiel

‘It’s very important to take care of yourself. Everyone’s lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it’s a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘The guardians of French pharmacies – the lab-coated salespeople – are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don’t interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God’s sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.’ – Emily Weiss

‘With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I’m so thankful to God that I’m still here.’ – Gary Rossington

‘Sometimes I get a little lazy, so that’s a problem. When I am travelling and am very busy with work, I don’t get time to work out, so starting up again and getting back into a routine is difficult.’ – Hazel Keech

‘My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don’t get to do both.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I come up with more ideas when I’m on the road, but I don’t get to finish them. I don’t get to fully flush them out because I’m so busy on the road. I’m very all over the place, but I’m definitely most creative when I’m out here.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘I try to teach people to make fewer mistakes. But in designing economic policies, we need to take full account of the fact that people are busy, they’re absent minded, they’re lazy, and that we should try to make things as easy for them as possible.’ – Richard Thaler

‘I actually, legitimately feel that I’m not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it’s overwhelming.’ – Fred Armisen

‘I go train, and like with Conan, I’m in leather, and with Drogo, I’m in leather or armor or something else. I’m not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I’ve got my boots.’ – Jason Momoa

‘I remember growing up as a kid in Houston, playing 3-on-3 in my grandmother’s driveway. I was lucky to be the youngest of four kids, so we had each other to keep ourselves busy and out of trouble. Not all kids are that fortunate.’ – Rashard Lewis

‘Quit being ‘busy’ and start actively owning and operating your company, and you’ll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.’ – Michael Gerber

‘If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.’ – Michael Gerber

‘What’s exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up – how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we’re all on the move and all so busy?’ – Emilia Wickstead

‘I’ve never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I’m a very busy person, so I’ve always done things and got on with my life.’ – Trudie Styler

‘We’re a busy family. We like challenges, and we like to be fully engaged with life. I’ve done that as long as I’ve been with Sting.’ – Trudie Styler

‘I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.’ – Rithvik Dhanjani

‘Our to-do lists are so full that we can’t hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I see so many people who are not keen on getting married because they are busy working and doing their own stuff. In fact even I thought I wouldn’t get married, but then luckily, I met Nikitin, and everything changed for good.’ – Kratika Sengar

‘My mum always removed her make-up at night and taught me early on about the importance of taking care of your skin, especially when you’re travelling or extremely busy, because it’s so easily affected by your surroundings and health.’ – Lily Collins

‘Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I’ve learned to accept people’s lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘My work is appreciated; I am getting good offers. Honestly, we are both doing well professionally. My husband has also been busy with work, and so have I.’ – Anita Hassanandani Reddy

‘I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I’m at work.’ – Zac Posen

‘I don’t get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I’m busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch very much television at all, even American television, until I’m done with a season, because things start to creep into my head otherwise.’ – Shonda Rhimes

‘I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an hour on the phone. But my feeling is that if you’re actually in the room with them, they get comfortable and you get more.’ – Mitchell Zuckoff

‘If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone’s integrity or intent, we’d be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.’ – Mike Lee

‘I feel better when I’m working. I tend to not know who I am when I’m not working. That worries me a little bit… I’ve been fortunate to be so busy, but I haven’t developed any other skills.’ – Allison Janney

‘What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy, and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren’t necessarily enough opportunities out there.’ – Benedict Samuel

‘I wanted to create a collection of leather handbags which would not only reflect the brand’s DNA but also appeal to a busy cosmopolitan woman.’ – Matthew Williamson

‘In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.’ – Richard Edelman

‘This profession has no rhythm to it – you’re either busy enough to fall down, or nothing’s happening!’ – Carol Kane

‘Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they’re too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they’re older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.’ – Jeffrey Skoll

‘I like to be busy every day.’ – Holly Branson

‘I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye… I’m sure those things stick with you.’ – Jason Robards

‘I don’t say in the morning, ‘Look, Leandra, here are a bunch of women. Put that bronzer down.’ It’s more that I’m busy and whatever helps you get out the door and go to sleep easier.’ – Leandra Medine

‘When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, ‘You’ve just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.” – Mark Strong

‘I try to keep myself busy creatively; it’s for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.’ – Lauren Ashley Carter

‘When you’re an actor, it’s really great to be busy – that’s what we all want!’ – Rachel Shenton

‘There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it’s rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get ‘overworked’ and need to rest.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O’Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don’t know if that’s bad or good.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.’ – Anand Giridharadas

‘I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend to write at home, in a room I’ve set aside for the task. I don’t work well in cafes or busy, loud spaces, although I wish I could. It would mean greater flexibility for me.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘My kindest interpretation of my younger self is, ‘Boy, was I busy.’ I had two kids, a husband, two stepkids. I mean, how many darn things can a person do at the end of the day?’ – Sallie Krawcheck

‘My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!’ – Claude Picasso

‘It’s notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.’ – Nell Scovell

‘There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn’t get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, ‘Wow, I’m kind of over this.’ But then we started really having fun on ‘The Suite Life.” – Cole Sprouse

‘My schedule is pretty busy, so I’ve learned to do my makeup quickly because I prefer to sleep.’ – Katie Holmes

‘I am busy all day long. Never bored – I don’t know what the word means.’ – Richard Bonynge

‘My main thing is family first. This industry can get you so caught up that you’re so busy chasing, wanting to be number one and wanting to be the richest that you lose sight of what life really is about.’ – Fantasia Barrino

‘I have a mind that always wants to be busy.’ – Matt Letscher

‘When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘I think, for me, since I’ve always had a busy lifestyle, I try to take out a little time for me and exercise and do things that are good for me, because if I’m not good, then I can’t extend that out to my family.’ – Gina Neely

‘If you listen to ‘Pod Save America’, which is run by former Obama staffers and Democratic party partisans, you’ll be exposed to ads for home delivery of everything from gourmet meals to underwear, presumably in the belief that you’re too busy being fabulous to go near a shop.’ – David Hepworth

‘Lucy Kellaway’s columns in the ‘Financial Times’ lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we’re really as busy as we pretend we are.’ – David Hepworth

‘I just don’t harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone – I’m too busy.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Kendall is really satisfied on her role in ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians.’ With her modeling career, she’s so busy. If she’s not walking a runway, she’s shooting a campaign or traveling around the world with her fashion obligations. She’s a pretty busy little girl.’ – Kris Jenner

‘My father is with me every day. Although he passed away in 2003, he continues to live on inside me and through me – at home and work, on crowded subway cars and busy sidewalks.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.’ – Billie Eilish

‘I always manage to keep myself busy.’ – Kevin Parker

‘No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.’ – Sheila Heti

‘My podcast ‘Getting Curious’ keeps me really busy, which I love.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.’ – Natalie Prass

‘Philly’s busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It’s a place where people pass through and bands don’t usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it’s not too over the top.’ – Kurt Vile

‘We work with Birchbox, and I think that it’s kind of exciting. You’re getting a gift every month, and it also entices people to be more experimental and to try more things. For busy people like myself, it’s really helpful.’ – Cynthia Rowley

‘I keep saying this – and I keep putting it off because I get busy – but I keep saying one year I’m gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is.’ – Tony Rock

‘I truly am of the belief that I should be nominated and elected ‘Emperor of North America’ and given a shot at being ruler of the universe, and I haven’t had the chance to craft my campaigns for these offices yet because I’ve been very busy with Brock Lesnar.’ – Paul Heyman

‘I do like a red carpet. Unfortunately I’m always under-prepared when it comes to outfits. I’m so busy running around I don’t get time to do fittings.’ – Stefflon Don

‘I love being busy.’ – Anne-Marie

‘I’ve put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.’ – Lou Barlow

‘I tend to lean toward a more minimal aesthetic, so when I use wallpapers in my interiors, I like for one or two prints to be the star of the show. I would recommend being careful in your use of strong prints so the room doesn’t get too busy. Use one print that dominates and one as an accent.’ – Bobby Berk

‘Keeping busy keeps me sane.’ – Tyler Posey

‘A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.’ – Svetlana Alexievich

‘I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I’m here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me.’ – Amanda Seales

‘My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films.’ – Hirokazu Kore-eda

‘If Okada, if a Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, The Young Bucks, if they want to have a ,the place they can find me is the WWE. I’m going to be busy making my way to the top of that food chain.’ – Luke Harper

‘I realized I wasn’t a good employee because I was too busy listening to people’s personal problems to do work.’ – Mel Robbins

‘You know that if you come to WWE and want to maintain a certain level of success, you’re going to be busy and gone a lot. It’s part of the deal.’ – Matt Hardy

‘I stay busy, and it feels good.’ – Peter Max

‘I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that – enter into a new venture – it keeps you very busy.’ – Bobby Lashley

‘I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘Everybody used to be busy writing songs – great songs – that became hits. Now everybody’s writing hits. Everybody’s desperately writing a hit because they know they can’t survive if they don’t have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like ‘More Than Words’ on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.’ – Nuno Bettencourt

‘I don’t think of myself as busy because I don’t even have to get dressed most days.’ – Sally Rooney

‘I like being busy.’ – Christopher Lloyd

‘I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.’ – Lemmy

‘We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn’t do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche – played us like a dimestore ukulele – but we were keen to be plucked.’ – Ben Fountain

‘I like to stay busy. I have a lot of things on my mind.’ – Gerard Pique

‘Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I’m not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘Digital exclusion is a difficult issue for families across the whole of the U.K., including my own. I love seeing my nan, but with such a busy schedule and a long distance between us, I don’t get to see her nearly as often as I would like.’ – Rachel Riley

‘Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I’d be disappointed because songs about New York always made it seem so magical and perfect, and when I was younger, I just thought it was busy and dirty.’ – Grace VanderWaal

‘I don’t think that now I am a star. I don’t get too much time to interact with people, and I am quite busy with work. I work. I come back home, and my loved ones are still the same. They will never change. And, I travel. I have not realised or internalised that life has changed.’ – Rajkummar Rao

‘I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?’ – Montserrat Caballe

‘It’s bizarre: sometimes I go through periods where I really want to put a song up online, and sometimes I’m sort of busy with other things… It’s very much a hobby, that kind of thing. I sort of post it more for maybe my mom’s benefit, and suddenly she says, ‘It’s got 50,000 views.’ And I think maybe I should’ve put it as private.’ – George Blagden

‘I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn’t have time to drive me there, and we didn’t have a school bus or whatever.’ – Rich Brian

‘Aine had to change her entire routine; my dad had to quit his job, which was painful because he loves to be busy. My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.’ – Philippe Coutinho

‘I’m too busy with entertainment to think about anything else. No one knows this sport better than I do. I’ve been a fan of this sport since UFC 1 in Denver. I’ve followed this sport, I’ve been obsessed with this sport, I’ve trained with the best of the best, and I’ve fought the best of the best.’ – Brendan Schaub

‘I am so extremely busy with what I am doing myself. When I am not playing music, I am usually doing other things. Playing around with my Ferraris and playing tennis and things like that. What I understand, there is a new group of kids that are very serious about playing, which is great; I think that is a good thing.’ – Yngwie Malmsteen

‘I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.’ – Wendy Williams

‘I’ve done plenty of phoners for Joel when he’s been too busy. You’ll never know. Our voices sound so similar.’ – Benji Madden

‘I’m not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I’m making Hindi films. It’s just that I’m extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.’ – Prabhu Deva

‘I’m a busy girl, and I’ve been switching gears from telly and putting my heart and soul into music.’ – Ashley Roberts

‘I like to be busy and fight many times a year and showcase all my potentials.’ – Lyoto Machida

‘I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.’ – Lyoto Machida

‘In our business, it’s hard to look at anything in retrospect and look at your accomplishments because you’re so busy thinking about the next week. What we do is 52 weeks a year.’ – Enzo Amore

‘I love this… being busy and working every day.’ – Shruti Haasan

‘I’ll fight anyone; I don’t hide from anyone. I don’t try to get easy fights. I don’t sit down and wait. I want to be busy, and I will fight anyone put in front of me.’ – Dillian Whyte

‘I want to stay active and busy. I don’t just want to fight a no-name opponent. I want a decent name or a big name or a world champion, somebody who is going to challenge me. That’s just it.’ – Errol Spence Jr.

‘Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I’ve always wanted to direct and write. But I’ve been so busy – and fortunate and lucky – as an actor.’ – Peter Stormare

‘I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I’m working as hard as I can.’ – Lucy Boynton

‘My favorite place is Maui. It’s almost perfect there – the people, the weather, just everything. No matter how busy you are, when you get to Maui, you chill and relax.’ – Carlos Mencia

‘I wanted to get a puppy, but then things started getting super, super busy, and I didn’t have a chance.’ – Darci Lynne Farmer

‘I don’t have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I’m busy making films.’ – Ram Gopal Varma

‘I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in the afternoon, and playing folk at night. I was quite busy!’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule.’ – Esther Dyson

‘There are some times I’m really busy and other times I’m not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don’t know what to do with myself when I’m not wrestling or on the road.’ – Adam Cole

‘I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.’ – Sue Perkins

‘Because I’m busy, I don’t sit down to a lot of big formal meals – unless I’ve got mates round, in which case I’ll cook something.’ – Sue Perkins

‘I find in L.A. that you ask people how they’re doing, and the immediate answer is, ‘Oh, I’m very busy,’ as if busy is the goal.’ – Frank Grillo

‘I would probably lose my mind if I wasn’t busy. There’s only so many video games I can play.’ – Phil Heath

‘There was a time when everybody was busy doing, ‘What is she wearing? How is she looking?’ I am happy that is changing now.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘If Bryan is like, ‘I’m going to be at the gym here for two hours,’ it forces me to keep myself busy for those two hours. It pushes you more! And Bryan is actually the first relationship I’ve been in where my partner enjoys a healthy lifestyle like me. Even past lifting weights at the gym.’ – Brie Bella

‘Sometimes, the actual feeling of loving someone takes a back seat because we are busy defining it.’ – Parvathy

‘I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray on-screen.’ – Kirti Kulhari

‘I like to be busy.’ – Frankie Avalon

‘My dad was very busy with his films, and I got the opportunity to mingle with him only when I was in 10th standard. More than anna Suriya, my sister and I used to discuss many things with him. But he never, ever advised me, instead will only share his life experiences.’ – Karthi

‘TV is keeping me very busy.’ – Jennifer Winget

‘From a filmmaker’s point of view, there is something undeniably cinematic about a location like Santa Monica Boulevard, which is so chaotic and busy and over-stimulating.’ – Sean Baker

‘My two girlfriends from university, Sue Perkins and Sarah Phelps, are both in the business – and are both stupidly busy. We talk on the phone a lot and try to get out to dinner together, but our preferred venue is one of our kitchens with a lot of tea.’ – Nicola Walker

‘It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.’ – Paulie Malignaggi

‘I don’t go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.’ – Harry Redknapp

‘After ‘Dil Aashna Hai,’ I became busy, as my daughters Esha and Ahana were growing up, and I had to look after them.’ – Hema Malini

‘I’d rather be busy than not.’ – Billy Burke

‘I’m constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.’ – Joey Jordison

‘I will be busy playing, getting in shape, and learning English, and being in a smaller town will help me do that. And I want the challenge of trying to get Bolton into Europe for the first time in their history.’ – Rivaldo

‘I want to do a project with the right intentions – not money or popularity or to be busy. I’m not even concerned about being ‘out of sight, out of mind’ because if that’s the motivation, then I won’t give my 110% to the work.’ – Shweta Tripathi

‘I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it’s a place where I’d never fancy living – too busy, too lively, people on top of you.’ – Gareth Barry

‘I don’t have time to think about my pre-politics days. I am so very busy.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘I usually don’t get much free time. Cricket keeps me busy, and I like it that way.’ – Prithvi Shaw

‘I’m certainly interested in taking a photo with anyone who took time out of their busy schedule in life to say hello.’ – Shawn Crahan

‘A busy man is someone who doesn’t find 24 hours enough to do his work. But for me, even after I finish my work, I find a lot of time for myself.’ – Prakash Raj

‘You don’t want to be single forever. But also, once you have your own life, your partner has to be someone very special because life is so busy. If that person isn’t right for you, don’t settle for second best.’ – Suranne Jones

‘The love in the old days had a certain grace, quintessential feel to it. Now everybody is busy in their phones.’ – Jackie Shroff

‘I am so busy with my family and my serials I don’t get time to watch other serials.’ – Smriti Irani

‘Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.’ – Amber Rudd

‘If you are busy with a good performance, something you can control, then the chance to win the game is much bigger.’ – Georginio Wijnaldum

”Faithfully’ speaks to me. It’s about a guy who’s busy with his work, always on the road, but I’m still completely into you. If you just hold on, I’ll completely give myself to you. Just stick along for the ride.’ – Myles Garrett

‘On occasion, it’s rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I’ll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I’m up late because I’ve got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I’m up early ’cause I’ve got things to do, so that’s the only thing. That’s how I like it; I like to be busy.’ – Urijah Faber

‘When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back and do a pop album. It needs its own length of time.’ – Shankar Mahadevan

‘Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.’ – Zelda Williams

‘I am very much available for singing. There’s a misconception that I am too busy with my acting ventures, but, I think, I can manage both.’ – Andrea Jeremiah

‘I tried to get into college, but I think I’m going to wait a little bit for that because I’m just so busy.’ – Brooke Hogan

‘We always make so many excuses for ourselves – ‘I’m so busy, I’m so tired, I don’t want to do it.’ You know? ‘I’m passionate about it, but I’m not going to be the person that changes things.’ Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they’re passionate.’ – Cameron Boyce

‘Although we are busy with our own work, we still try and spend time together. At the same time, we give each other space. I think that is the key to a successful marriage.’ – Gauri Khan

‘I think both husband and wife should have busy minds, not see too much of each other, but not too little either: just get it right. If both are healthy in their heads and satisfied with their day’s work, the partnership works.’ – Gauri Khan

‘Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.’ – Gauri Khan

‘I am a fitness freak, and I do not celebrate any festivity in a grand way during the months of December and January because I am busy preparing for my marathon.’ – Nikita Dutta

‘I have two full-time jobs: one of a mother and the other of an actor. Both are equally important, and that’s why I’m busy 24×7.’ – Sonali Bendre

‘It’s so busy in London, and I’m used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.’ – Millie Bright

‘I enjoy keeping busy, and fortunately for me, there’s a large audience out there who are keen to hear me sing. It’s their love and affection that keep me going.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘I love flying around the world doing what I do – that keeps me so busy.’ – Kelly Brook

‘There’s a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family’s definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career – I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It’s quite busy. Very stressful.’ – AB de Villiers

‘I get home from work at six or seven. When I’m busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.’ – Guy Martin

‘I’m keeping myself busy with hobbies and sport. I have my animals and a huge garden.’ – Jupp Heynckes

‘I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That’s why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.’ – Massimiliano Allegri

‘I don’t know if I spent any time on a putting green when I was a kid. I was too busy hitting driver.’ – Gary Woodland

‘The challenge in confronting Trump is that there are certain things that he does that that you have to respond to, just morally. When he lies, you’ve got to correct the lie, which will keep you busy because he does it so often. When he does something wrong, you’ve got to point to it.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘I think we take our friends for granted a lot in high school. We’re so busy worrying about our own problems that we ignore the fact that we have these people who are supporting us and taking care of us like all the time.’ – Shannon Purser