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Quotes About Distraction

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.
~ Ralph Reese
Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.
~ Ray Davies
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
~ Ibn Ata Allah
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
~ Pete Wentz
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.
~ Jerry Coleman
Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.
~ Dylan Moran
This is a pie chart about procrastination.
~ Demetri Martin
Don't buy the toys that make the noise!
~ Denis Leary
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
~ Kim Askew
It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn't completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me.
~ Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
~ Ryan Lilly
... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.Basically, we are stupid.
~ Saurabh Sharma
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
~ T. Boone Pickens
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
~ Terry Pratchett
Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.
~ Nenia Campbell, Endgame
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.
~ Caroline Rhea
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
~ William Wilberforce
Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.
~ Martin O'Malley
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.
~ Ephrem the Syrian