Quotes About Diversion

Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack.

Ungley had afforded Balaclava little enough diversion during his lifetime. Maybe he was atoning by departing in a fashion so much more dramatic than his lectures could ever have been.

I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

As a military man, Eli found himself impressed by the layered diversion/attack strategy of pickpocket and muggers. As a potential victim, he found himself flinching back from the sudden flurry of activity, feeling helpless without a weapon or the warning deterrent of a uniform. As a bystander, he found himself oddly entertained.

I start off meaning to tell you a story, and then I get sidetracked with something that interests me, and I go wandering off all over the place; yet here we are, nicely on schedule, at the point where I have just met Phaedra and am just starting off on the long process of getting betrothed to her. In fact, we are here rather ahead of time; so, while we are waiting for the main stream of my narrative to catch up with us, I shall tell you about my first meeting with the Spartans.

A man needs a hobby, Finn, and all the best football teams have been taken." The

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Hello? You tracking at all? Or were you planning on sleeping through this round. The lids on that red stare lifted. I'm not sleeping. Meditating. Whatever. I wasn't meditating. Fine. Psychically manipulating energy fields—— You make me dizzy when you pace. It's vertigo diversion.

What are you going to do for fun if you can't devastate planets anymore? I'll have to find another hobby, I guess.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you're contorted to such outrageous limits – I'm speaking of passion – that nothing else matters. I wanted this. I desired diversion.

Books are fun, Nicholas, he says, they're like amusement parks for readers. Yeah, well, maybe they would be fun if I got to pick the rides sometimes, you answer

In the same year, looking for a diversion from ill-health and overwork, Loudon reviewed a three-volume romance entitled The Mummy's Tale – A Novel, for The Gardener's magazine. Set in 2126, in an England that had reverted to absolute monarchy, this featured prototypes for espresso machines, air-conditioning and, most prophetically, 'a communication system that permitted instant world dissemination of news'.