Distracted Quotes

289 Distracted quotes by 264 unique authors

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. — Kim Edwards
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake.… — Chuck Palahniuk
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face… — Eduardo Galeano
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk… — Jon Katz
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do… — Meister Eckhart
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. — Julio Cortazar
Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this… — J R Ward
I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a… — Charlaine Harris
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something… — Denis Johnson
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and… — Christopher Brookmyre
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos… — Saul Bellow
I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is… — John Flanagan
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for… — Garth Stein
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives… — Louise Erdrich
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all… — Anne Lamott
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient.… — Lois McMaster Bujold
A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A coward’s action. Truly. Don’t insult either one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is… — Huston Smith
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form… — Neil Postman

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