Absentminded Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's…
— Gordon Getty
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made…
— Paula Poundstone
Who Wrote These Absentminded Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Absentminded Quotes as follows: