Quotes About Diversion

Hey, as long as you're not moving the story forward at all, why not have a pod race?

At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable.

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

Nothing is more to the point than a good digression.

All the cameras shifted from the players to me.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

I channel surf like probably most people.

Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.

She was a refreshing diversion in perfection.

That's why I love entertainment, in all forms: it's connection disguised as escapism.

Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan.

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

You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Sports are what we watch when we just can't look at another spreadsheet. They're what we use when we need to get away from our lives for a little bit. Every human needs the escape, and sports provides this splendidly.