Floyd Dell Professions : Novelist Born : June 28, 1887 Died : July 23, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Floyd Dell Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. Floyd Dell doing-nothing being-free laziness I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die. Floyd Dell pain justice ideas Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything. Floyd Dell want children people Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors