Distraction Quote by Alexandra Martin

“Girls have always been the best distractions. Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from”

— Gayle Forman

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

— Bret Easton Ellis

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

— Ellen Glasgow

“She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?” The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?” “Why not?” “Feels rather unseemly.”…

— Angela Quarles

If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most…

— Abbi Glines

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all…

— Malcolm X

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red…

— Clive Barker

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the…

— Tenzin Palmo

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link