Busy

Famous quotes containing the word busy:

“Now ‘tis nought
But restless hurry through the busy air,
Beat by unnumbered wings.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)