The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the… — Robert G. Picard Copy Share Image
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
As a parent, you soon realise that to get your child away from the TV you have to create a diversion. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless,… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms. — Clifford Stoll 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
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like… — John Peel Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly… — Michael Nielsen Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee 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
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which… — William H. Shannon Copy Share Image
“The only good thing for men therefore is to be diverted from thinking of what they are, either by some occupation which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker 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
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion… — Todd Skinner Copy Share Image
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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