Hobby Quotes

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“ভেবে-চিন্তে অগ্রপশ্চাৎ বিবেচনা করে বই কেনে সংসারী লোক। পাঁড় পাঠক বই কেনে প্রথমে দাঁত-মুখ খিঁচিয়ে, তারপর চেখে চেখে সুখ করে করে, এবং সর্বশেষে সে কেনে ক্ষ্যাপার মত, এবং চুর হয়ে থাকে মধ্যিখানে। এই একমাত্র ব্যসন, একমাত্র নেশা যার দরুন সকালবেলা চোখের সামনে সারে সারে গোলাপি হাতি দেখতে হয় না, লিভার পচে পটল তুলতে হয় না।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali

“The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!”
― John Waters, Role Models

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”
― Oscar Wilde, John Cooper, The Importance of Being Earnest

“You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law." Edgar went on, "but I suppose that is why you enjoy it."
"Everyone should have a hobby or two," Magnus said. "Mine just happen to include illegal trade, drinking and carousing. I've heard of worse."
"We tend not to have time for hobbies."
Shadowhunters. Always better than you.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“The place I go when I feel trapped inside myself. When I'm terrified that all my happiest moments belong to the past. Wen my body is humming with too much of something, or aching from too little, and life stretches out ahead of me like a threat.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You know, people start things for different reasons. But ultimately it turns into pure passion and one becomes insatiate. There is no end once you start drinking sea water. Curiosity is an addiction for which there is no cure.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.”
― Gloria Whelan

“If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your experiences, harnesses your talents, optimizes your strengths, complements your weaknesses, honors your life's purpose, and moves you towards the conquest of your own fears, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that anyone in this or any other universe can offer the same value that you do!”
― Walt F.J. Goodridge, Turn Your Passion Into Profit 2006 Edition

“The secret to being successful in any field is getting very interested in it... I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn't excel in anything in which I didn't have an intense interest”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects?
I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that I have a choice?
Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of occupation. All of us seem to come equipped with filters on the floors of our minds, and all the filters have differing sizes and meshes. What catches in my filter may run right through yours. What catches in yours may pass through mine, no sweat. All of us seem to have a built-in obligation to sift through the sludge that gets caught in our respective mind-filters, and what we find there usually develops into some sort of sideline.

The accountant may also be a photographer. The astronomer may collect coins. The school-teacher may do gravestone rubbings in charcoal. The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. In civilized society we have an unspoken agreement to call our obsessions “hobbies.”

Sometimes the hobby can become a full-time job. The accountant may discover that he can make enough money to support his family taking pictures; the schoolteacher may become enough of an expert on grave rubbings to go on the lecture circuit. And there are some professions which begin as hobbies and remain hobbies even after the practitioner is able to earn his living by pursuing his hobby; but because “hobby” is such a bumpy, common-sounding little word, we also have an unspoken agreement that we will call our professional hobbies “the arts.”

Painting. Sculpture. Composing. Singing. Acting. The playing of a musical instrument. Writing. Enough books have been written on these seven subjects alone to sink a fleet of luxury liners. And the only thing we seem to be able to agree upon about them is this: that those who practice these arts honestly would continue to practice them even if they were not paid for their efforts; even if their efforts were criticized or even reviled; even on pain of imprisonment or death.

To me, that seems to be a pretty fair definition of obsessional behavior. It applies to the plain hobbies as well as the fancy ones we call “the arts”; gun collectors sport bumper stickers reading YOU WILL TAKE MY GUN ONLY WHEN YOU PRY MY COLD DEAD FINGERS FROM IT, and in the suburbs of Boston, housewives who discovered political activism during the busing furor often sported similar stickers reading YOU'LL TAKE ME TO PRISON BEFORE YOU TAKE MY CHILDREN OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD on the back bumpers of their station wagons. Similarly, if coin collecting were outlawed tomorrow, the astronomer very likely wouldn't turn in his steel pennies and buffalo nickels; he'd wrap them carefully in plastic, sink them to the bottom of his toilet tank, and gloat over them after midnight.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“If you have a hobby, you be happy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The secret, my friend? Everything is an addiction. Just some addictions get called hobbies.”
― Nuclear Circus, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Hobbies are a way of staying present so humans do not have to think about death.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“When you play, you must open your heart to its magic. Listen to what it tells you, and you'll be repaid tenfold.”
― Josephine Cox, Three Letters

“Finding a hobby that you love is not only a lifesaver. It is a stress reliever and a blessing. It is something you solely do for your happiness. Not for money or any recognition.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Parents, your kids will thank you in the future for helping them cultivate their creative talents. It's important that you allow them to choose what they want to try. Don't force a hobby or activity on them. Let them go towards what they naturally gravitate to.”
― Robin S. Baker

“A hobby. Not a business. Not a way of life. Not necessity.
A hobby...
An artificial thing. A thing that had no beginning and no end. A thing a man could drop at any minute and no one would ever notice.
Like looking up recipes for different kinds of drinks.
Like painting pictures no one wanted.
Like going around with a crew of crazy robots begging people to let you redecorate their homes.
Like writing history no one cares about.
Like playing Indian or caveman or pioneer with bow and arrows.
Like thinking up centuries-long dreams for men and women who are tired of life and yearn for fantasy.”
― Clifford D. Simak, City

“Walking around is a hobby, my lord,
The rest of the man, I'm just plain.”
― Kalpesh Radadiya

“If homework can be a hobby it was, throughout elementary and middle and high school, primary among mine.”
― Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

“You've got to find your own thing. DJ's found his."
"What?" I asked. "Being perfect?"
"You." Jenny looked at me like it should have been obvious. "Taking care of you, trying to get you home. If you asked him to capture you a comet, he'd try to find a way to do it." She shrugged. "We all need a hobby, and you, inexplicably, are his.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

“For young people, it is never too early to plan for a good retirement. A lot of people don’t spend enough time to plan their life. To retire comfortably, you need financial independence, as you don’t want to compromise your lifestyle too much after you retire. You also need to establish a new social circle before your retirement, to keep yourself active and current. People who know you through work may not fit into your new lifestyle. You also need to cultivate a sustainable hobby to provide a sense of purpose. It is not advisable to nurture it after retirement, as it might not be what you are truly passionate about. Cultivate your garden early in life, fertilise it often and enjoy the fruits during retirement.”
― Fanny Lai

“If you have a hobby, happy are you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You become who you worship.”
― Mac Canoza

“John Deck was a snake fancier. He had only been rattler-bit a few times. At an early age he'd had his own pit full of diamondbacks, a plywood affair out near the garage. Some of the snakes would scootch themselves up vertically along the boards and John, cocky lad, used to knock them back down with his own quick right hand, until one day he presumed against a snake that was readier than he was, and caught a palmload of fangs.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

“Behind every challenge of being a non specialist, there's a beauty of being a multifaceted person.”
― Iva Škorić

“My Definition of Passion: Hobby worth living and dying for.”
― Sino Melo

“OUR DREAM: TO RULE JAPAN WITH MANGA! FIRST, OUR SERIALS MUST APPEAR IN EVERY GENRE OF EVERY MAJOR MANGA WEEKLY AND BE VOTED IN ALL THE READERS' POLLS! THEN, THOSE SERIALS MUST BE PUBLISHED AS LUSHLY PRODUCED GRAPHIC-NOVEL COLLECTIONS! THEN, THEY MUST BE RELEASED AS ANIME! THEN, THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CHARACTER MERCHANDISING, WHICH WILL MAKE US BILLIONAIRES! FURTHERMORE, WE WOULD LIKE TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE WITH ONE OF US EVENTUALLY BECOMING THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, AND THEN WE WILL BRAINWASH THE ENTIRE POPULATION WITH MANGA AND ANIME AND RULE THE ENTIRE NATION! THAT IS OUR DREAM!! IT'S A DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD! ONLY CHAMPIONS LIKE US CAN RULE IT!!”
― Koji Aihara, Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, Vol. 1