There’s nothing like a mystery to distract you from reality.

If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

— Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Don't let your circumstances distract you from God's truth.

— Anonymous

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has…

— Jaron Lanier

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol

Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to…

— Gail Carriger

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly…

— David Morrell

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

— Bill Halter

You can be whoever you want to be. Don't let those voices or noises, whether they're inside or outside, distract you.

— Ally Brooke

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

— Victoria Justice

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the…

— David Wong

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“you want attention only after you’re doing really good work. There’s no pressure when you’re unknown. You can do what you want. Experiment. Do…

— Austin Kleon

“It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know…

— Armistead Maupin