Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing… — Fawn M. Brodie 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
I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living… — Craig Groeschel 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
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
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
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
“mr. makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?" "no, of course not. no one can do that. but if people think… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the… — Angeles Arrien 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
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
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
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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