Quotes About Diversion

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

Unfortunately, the Hindi film industry is a sitting duck; it is easy to hurl malevolent accusations. It is a systematic campaign to divert attention from real issues, failing economy, China border tensions, spiraling Covid cases, and farmers' agitation by putting the spotlight on the supposed ills of the film industry.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

I am from a sports background, and always wanted to become either a cricketer or footballer; in short, just play some sport and represent my country. I got diverted, but the sportsman in me is still alive.

Sometimes it's easier to attack the spouse than it is to attack the politician.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É, de fato, fuga, mas não, como pretende, fuga da realidade perversa, mas sim do ultimo grão de resistência que a realidade ainda pode haver deixado. A libertação prometida pelo entretenimento é a do pensamento como negação.

Netflix is a lifesaver.

Netflix is something I watch.

Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.

People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

I'm always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I'm at home, chances are I'm playing one of those three. I've had every videogame console since Nintendo.

I love every second of the play. I drink it, like someone with dehydration might drink a glass of iced water. I love being made to think about something else other than my work and my marriage, and I love its wit and its seriousness, and I vow for the millionth time to nourish myself in this way on a more regular basis

No one's stopping you, said Jess. But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.

No matter what else is wrong in the world a book will take you away from it.

Then there are other media, too, their role is quite different: it's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them to watch national football... or get involved in astrology or fundamentalist stuff, just get them away, get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.