Busy

Famous quotes containing the word busy:

“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)

“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty.... But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)