“The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction. — George Stroumboulopoulos Copy Share Image
“On s'en va parce qu'on a besoin de distraction et l'on revient parce qu'on a besoin de bonheur.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction. — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else’s story is about the only distraction that works.” — Inglath Cooper Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that fosters distraction, hysteria and a manic addiction to inputs. We are a culture of checkers. We… — Christine Kane Copy Share Image
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better.… — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Printed works do not take up mental space simply by virtue of being there; attention must be paid or their content, whether… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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