A Quote by Joe Wright

I'm not good when idle.

Joe Wright

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Good Idle

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Joe Wright
English - Director
Born: August 25, 1972

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

Ignatius of Loyola

There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

Aldo Leopold

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Yip Harburg

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

John Darnielle

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

Gautama Buddha

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

E. Y. Harburg

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

George Carlin

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

David J. Schwartz

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Leo Rosten

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Jonathan Swift

Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.