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)

    “My busy heart who shudders as she talks
    Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

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