Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as… — Dan Jenkins 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
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
“Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams--correction, nightmares--where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand… — Bill Watterson 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
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the… — John Owen 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
“So much of what we do each day is a diversion from what our lives are really about. A traumatic event is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more… — Susanna Wesley 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
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