Tom Hodgkinson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Tom Hodgkinson quotes and sayings page 5 (writer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 76 we have.
“My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.”
“The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.”
“I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.”
“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”
“I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.”
“Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.”
“Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.”
“Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.”
“One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?”
“I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!”
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