Quotes About Diversion

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Misdirect ALL the time.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker—a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.

and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon's children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they've just become teenagers.)

For Adam Smith, our moral life, as well as our cultural life, is a matter of imagination. The richer the inventory of objects for its diversion, and the deeper our own fellow feeling, the happier we become, but also the more we can perceive happiness in others.

I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful. It

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.