Diversion Quotes · Page 3

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

— Anonymous

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

— Martha Beck

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless,…

— Paul Morley

“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

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush…

— Tim Robbins

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…

— Yoshida Kenko

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

— Clifford Stoll

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where…

— James Longstreet

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

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

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time…

— David Soul

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian…

— Piers Anthony

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the…

— Ayelet Waldman

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to…

— Gertrude Stein

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For…

— William Penn

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which…

— Samuel Richardson

Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the…

— John Berger

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

I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and…

— Harlan Coben

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of…

— Samuel Johnson

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

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…

— Wilfred Trotter

Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit…

— Diane Dreher

Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier…

— Brandon Sanderson

When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living…

— Craig Groeschel

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the…

— Adam Smith

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon…

— Anne Frank

As a parent, you soon realise that to get your child away from the TV you have to create a diversion.

— Michaela Strachan

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed…

— Bo Gritz

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

— Malcolm De Chazal

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

— Neil Postman

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

— David Rockefeller

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

— Candace Bushnell

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

— Alice Hegan Rice

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion…

— Todd Skinner

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons