Diversion Quote by Walker Percy Download Open image “Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.” — Walker Percy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diversion Wander
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
From childhood we are taught that to be careful, do not go astray in the paths of life. Wander simply means that we are… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply, and live… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image