Quotes About Distraction

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

I thought that in those movies and television shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break.

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Stories take a person away. If they're good ones, that is.

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self.

Try not to think of a polar bear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, and you will see the cursed thing come to mind every minute.

Beg your pardon, the gunslinger said. I was wool-gathering.

Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Liv runs. Every morning, and some evenings too. Running has taken the place of thinking, of eating, sometimes of sleeping. She runs until her shins burn and her lungs feel as if they will explode...She plugs in her iPod earphones, closes the door of the block, rams her keys into the pocket of her shorts, and sets off at a pace. She lets her mind flood with the deafening thumping beat, dance music so relentless that it leaves no room for thought.

That's the thing you don't know about children unless you have them—bath time, Lego, and fish fingers don't allow you to dwell on tragedy for too long.

with the music turned up loud so that I didn't have to be alone with my thoughts.

We were using FaceTime Audio, which I preferred to us looking at each other's faces as we talked—I got distracted by the way my nose seemed enormous, or what someone was doing behind me. I also didn't want her to see the size of the buttered muffins I was eating.

just wanted to get him out of the house and thinking about something else." I

anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.

Evil's ultimate goal is to divide us and separate us from God," he said. He distracts, discourages, distorts, and creates doubt so that we will be divided from God, divided from each other and from ourselves.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

Overlong sermons break in upon family concerns and often call off the thoughts from the sermon to the pudding at home that is in danger of being overboiled.