Famous quotes containing the word busy:
“In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are madea child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?Not at all: it absolutely stops short.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“I do not weep at the worldI am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Happiness is a matter of ones most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for ones ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
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