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Quotes About Diversion

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
~ David Copperfield
'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.
~ Howie Mandel
I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
~ John Oates
Anytime your puppy looks, leans, or lunges at the children, either step between them (block) or move in the opposite direction as you redirect them to another diversionary game or activity (refer to Step 2).
~ Sarah Hodgson
Ask My Spirit to help you fix your gaze on Me. Invite Him to alert you whenever you get overly focused on problems so you can redirect your attention to Me.
~ Sarah Young
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
~ William Shakespeare
I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. "Explanations?" I bellowed. "Explanations? There's your explanation…there!" I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it's a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn't sometimes work.
~ Stephen Fry
just wanted to get him out of the house and thinking about something else." I
~ Jojo Moyes
anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.
~ Jojo Moyes
Del mismo modo hay que saber descansar, dejar lo que uno está haciendo y poner la cabeza en otra cosa que relaje, distraiga, divierta.
~ Enrique Rojas
Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.
~ Harry Redknapp
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
~ Jack Antonoff
It sounds cheesy, but have a hobby you like. Fill yourself with that, distract yourself, get away from it completely - go hiking, play scary German card games, or create things.
~ Brendan Hunt
Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.
~ Kayvan Novak
Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.
~ Dan Schneider
The organism is a diversion of life, whereas abstract line is life itself.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.
~ Jeanine Pirro
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
~ Robert Shea
I love going to movies.
~ Serena Williams
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
~ James Branch Cabell
Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
~ Mary Balogh
is getting bored, shift the topic of the story or change the tone of your voice to make it sound more exciting.
~ Matt Morris