“Coraline shook her head. ‘Why don’t you play with me?’ she asked.
‘Busy,’ he said. ‘Working,’ he added. He still hadn’t turned around to look at her.”
“Honor ‘AMERICA’ June 14 AT 4 p.m. Be
proud of ‘Our Land & People’. Be part of
the ‘LIVING FLAG’. Don’t let it be said
that Lake Wobegon was ‘Too Busy’. Be on
time. 4 p.m. ‘Sharp’.”
“Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.”
“She has to do a lot of thinking about accident victims, because they have acquired brain injuries... So her thinking quota is just about used up by the time she gets home and she can’t be thinking thoughtful thoughts about me and Ricci, and Caramella with a sprained ankle.”
“More than anything else in the world, Angelina loved to dance. She danced all the time and she danced everywhere, and often she was so busy dancing that she forgot about the other things she was supposed to be doing.”
″‘Tell me, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one?’
‘A happy one, of course.’
‘Wrong,’ he said. ‘A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one.‘”
″‘You have something there- an ill behaved puppy- that belongs to me. Pray you hand it over to my squire, for training.’
And the lazy voice replied, faintly drawling, ‘Let the Lord of Arundel forgive me, I fear I am something too busy.‘”
“Very suspicious- tigers too busy chewing gum, Rhinoceros too busy brushing his tusk-must get hold of that invasion. Don’t like it one bit, not one bit! It’s upsetting everybody terribly-wonder what it’s doing here, anyway.”