Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face. — Melissa McBride Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age,… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though… — Simon Brett Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so… — Nicole Oresme Copy Share Image
“Here, you carry these. I may need my hands free. Why the hell are we taking ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber?’… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing,… — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Diversion programs often give people who have been charged with nonviolent crimes a chance to avoid conviction if they comply with conditions… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer Copy Share Image
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
