Quotes About Distraction

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

It's important not to lose focus; so many things can happen. People try to build this fire between the clubs. The heat is going to get more and more.

In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.

It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

For our Selves will always do pretty well if we don't pay them too much attention. Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.

What is life about, Dr. Watson, if it is not about literature? To my mind, all else is a distraction. I should happily idle away the rest of my days in the company of a good book.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens

It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing...

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ...

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

IT'S JUST ROUND THE CORNER ALL THE TIME, AND WE ALL KNOW IT'S THERE. STOP FIRING THAT MACHINE-GUN! STOP CHASING WHATEVER YOU'RE CHASING! CALM DOWN, GET YOUR BREATH BACK, LET A BIT OF PEACE SEEP IN YOUR BONES. NO USE. WE DON'T DO IT. JUST KEEP ON WITH THE SAME BLOODY FOOLERIES.

Ayaktak?m? öyle aÅŸa??l?k bir yarat?kt?r ki boÅŸ vakti kal?rsa tehlike arz eder; onu düÅŸünemeyecek kadar meÅŸgul tutmak daha güvenlidir.

Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a sort of twilight sleep in which they're conscious of nothing but the daily-round of work, family life, darts at the pub, exercising the dog, bringing home the supper, beer, etc, etc

The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;

They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off.

Perhaps, if she could be busy all the time, as she meant to be, she might not feel so unhappy; perhaps, in household cares, she could forget her love, or grow at least accustomed to desolation.

Oh, Kit, don't joke me! I am going distracted !

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.