Top 666 Busy Quotes

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa – wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I’m so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I’m just madly in love with.
Jeff Bridges
Here’s what I’ve learned about eating healthy when you’re busy: It’s all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.
Summer Sanders
I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?
Montserrat Caballe
If we are busy in a hundred good things – even great things, gospel things, glorious things – but don’t sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.
Kevin DeYoung
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I’ll fight anyone; I don’t hide from anyone. I don’t try to get easy fights. I don’t sit down and wait. I want to be busy, and I will fight anyone put in front of me.
Dillian Whyte
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.
Charles K. Kao
My dad’s in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they’re really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
Danielle de Niese
Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I’m at work.
Zac Posen
I’m too busy to block everyone on Twitter.
Drew Pinsky
You don’t have to stick with these recipes. They’re guides. As I say, they’re a way in. Have fun with them. It’s an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
Sally Schneider
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief – to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
Stef Wertheimer
I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.
Peter Hook
America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
Bono
My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything’s okay and let me know that they’re there for me.
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
I mean, it’s been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It’s been kind of difficult.
Daniela Hantuchova
When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
Donnie Wahlberg
I don’t watch any television, hardly ever because I’m so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that’s it.
Lisa Vanderpump
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
James Nasmyth
I’m busy all the time.
Thalia
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
Steven Spielberg
He’s looking for the president’s kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I’m waiting for that action.
Derek Luke
The best person to get something done is a busy person.
Mark Burnett
When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.
Philipp Meyer
And I’ve always – the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you’re too busy worrying about the competition, you don’t focus enough on what you’re doing.
Katie Couric
I’m not gonna worry about what people think about me. I’m too busy. I don’t give a hoot.
Cyndi Lauper
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin’s eyes to notice what was under the table.
Lennart Meri
Because I’m so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I’m irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Joni Mitchell
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
James Weldon Johnson
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you’re not busy enough.
Francois Truff
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I truly am of the belief that I should be nominated and elected ‘Emperor of North America’ and given a shot at being ruler of the universe, and I haven’t had the chance to craft my campaigns for these offices yet because I’ve been very busy with Brock Lesnar.
Paul Heyman
It’s good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you’ve got two roles to play at one time, then that’s great to do.
Damian Lewis
When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn’t think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.
Jean-Michel Jarre
I love information. I want to stay current. I don’t want to be under-informed. But I’m busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
David McCandless
I’ve spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.
Sterling K. Brown
Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I’d be disappointed because songs about New York always made it seem so magical and perfect, and when I was younger, I just thought it was busy and dirty.
Grace VanderWaal
I’ve changed my diet a few times. Now I’m trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I’m busy, it’s easy to lose weight.
Michael Keaton
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.
William J. H. Boetcker
Error is always more busy than truth.
Hosea Ballou
There’s so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That’s about it. I enjoy what I do. I’ll stay busy. I’ve been lucky.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
I am so extremely busy with what I am doing myself. When I am not playing music, I am usually doing other things. Playing around with my Ferraris and playing tennis and things like that. What I understand, there is a new group of kids that are very serious about playing, which is great; I think that is a good thing.
Yngwie Malmsteen
A charming woman is a busy woman.
Loretta Young
I don’t really know why I’m so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I’m even busier!
Brianna Brown
I’ve waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, ‘shut up.’ Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
Steve Carell
When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.
Dinesh Paliwal
When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don’t have the resources to deal with it because they’ve been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven’t learned how to sit down and discuss things.
Janet McTeer
I always find something to keep me busy.
Amy Sedaris
People are so busy anyway they don’t see you or recognise you in the street.
Andrea Corr
My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
Michael Ondaatje
Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I’ve always wanted to direct and write. But I’ve been so busy – and fortunate and lucky – as an actor.
Peter Stormare
When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, ‘I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I’m busy cooking!’
Betty Williams
Representing the people is not something ‘our’ representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.
Paul Craig Roberts
I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.
Rithvik Dhanjani
Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters hav

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.
Michelle Malkin
My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I’m going to take that advice.
Angie Stone
My schedule is usually pretty busy, so when I wake up in the morning, first thing I usually do is turn on the TV and watch shows from the night before. I eat breakfast and watch TV and try to wake up.
Nolan Gould