Quotes About Distraction

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.

At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV.

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

She drove off in typical L.A. fashion, foot flat on the gas and a cell phone pressed against one ear.

los distraídos suelen oxidarse

the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

As soon as you cross your property line, you might as well write off the possibility of getting anything else done that day.

we have come to invest so much attention on something so shallow.

Pino ignored her, focusing instead on the locomotive in an apron chugging out of the kitchen

Milan, Pino was blissfully ignoring the forces of

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.