A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995,… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time… — David Soul 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
The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's… — Lewis Mumford 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
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They… — Gore Vidal 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
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
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
