Busier Than Quotes & Sayings

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30. — Gloria Steinem

I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake. — Scott Adams

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them. — Kate DiCamillo

My fingers always seem busier than my mind. — Alexander Calder

Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier. — Lee DeWyze

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. — Alexander Pope

Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not. — Evelyn Underhill

This notion of rest, it's attractive to her, but I don't think she would like it. They are all like that, these women. Waiting for the ease, the space that need not be filled with anything other than the drift of their own thoughts. But they wouldn't like it. They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of cowslips will rush into that opening, nor mornings free of flies and heat when the light is shy. No. Not at all. They fill their mind and hands with soap and repair and dicey confrontations because what is waiting for them, in a suddenly idle moment, is the seep of rage. Molten. Thick and slow-moving. Mindful and particular about what in its path it chooses to bury. Or else, into a beat of time, and sideways under their breasts, slips a sorrow they don't know where from. — Toni Morrison

Patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert — Jim Butcher

Somewhere along the way we've gotten the message that the more we struggle and the more we suffer, the more valuable we will become and the more successful we'll eventually be. And so we overwork ourselves, overschedule ourselves, and become "busier than thou" because we think there's some sort of prize on the other side of the pain we cause ourselves. And you know what? There's no prize. All you get from suffering is more suffering. — Kate Northrup

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was. — Howie Mandel

Winter was usually the slow season at the menagerie, with so many of the animals hibernating, but that year I was busier than a hen with a double set of chicks. — Patricia C. Wrede

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands. — Jason Newsted

The busier you are working on you, your life and your happiness, the less time you will have to dwell on another's success other than to celebrate it. — Dushka Zapata

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. — Peter Hook

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing. — Anton Du Beke

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day. — Giuliana Rancic

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. — Ian Somerhalder

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been. — John Templeton

The pace of postmodern life may leave us huffing and puffing, trying to catch our breath, but there is a certain excitement to the madness. Reaching deadlines, trying to squeeze new experiences into an already-overfilled day, just trying to keep up while meeting the challenges that hit us every day - all of it can be more than a little intoxicating. For many of us, the busier we are, the more alive we feel. Somehow we have to be weaned off the chaos if we're ever going to accomplish anything that counts for eternity with our lives. — Mark Tabb

It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale. — David Livingstone

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while. — Paul McCartney

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

They got me busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. — Dolly Parton

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear. — Chris Hemsworth

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be. — Matthew Kelly

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you ... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy. — James Peterson

Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who's got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso? We got Picasso, big Picasso. Nobody can make heads or tails of it. It's a lion? No, a seahorse. Looks to me like a radiator with wings. Who gives a damn, people, a Picasso's a Picasso. — Peter Orner

Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest. — Joe Teti

I'm busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest; wish — Stephen King

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game. — Jerry Rice

He also began to suspect, since he was so much busier than anybody else, that he was the leader — Kurt Vonnegut