“Consistency is contingent of Success, otherwise a diversion.” — Muhammad Basit Rana -MBR 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
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face. — Melissa McBride 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though… — Simon Brett 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley 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
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
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer… — Sam Harris 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
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions. — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
