Absent Minded Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences…
— Jean Giraudoux
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I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
— George Burns
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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no…
— Joseph Conrad
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,…
— Alberto Manguel
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I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to…
— Alexei Sayle
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
— George Santayana
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Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And…
— Joyce Cary
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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
— Saul Bellow
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I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
— Matt Dillon
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I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
— Jewel
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Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
— Herman Melville
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Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
— Charles Simic
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If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I…
— H.G. Wells
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
— Jalal-Uddin Rumi
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I am a gifted absent-minded person who honks the horn at speed breakers / speed bumps.
— Mohit Sharma
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I'm a rare kind,I mean I'm absent minded,I did lost my mind,but can't go to hell coz that's where I will find it.
— Curtis Mayne
Who Wrote These Absent Minded Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Absent Minded Quotes as follows: