Distraction Quotes

446 Distraction quotes by 390 unique authors

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.… — C.S. Lewis
I love you to pieces, distraction, etc. — J D Salinger
People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,… — Marilynne Robinson
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. — Jasper Fforde
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. — Julio Cortazar
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and… — Saul Bellow
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. — Ray Bradbury
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with… — John Robbins
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and… — J R Ward
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. — Chuck Palahniuk
Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction."… — Lisa McMann
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall… — Frank O'Hara
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the… — Francesca Lia Block
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to… — Barry Lyga
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase
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 of… — Malcolm X
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where… — Muriel Barbery

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