Quotes About Diversion

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.

Vertical Flame Diversion—

I am excessively diverted.

I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

For shame, Emma! Do not mimic her. You divert me against my conscience.

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

So much for the sexy moment, I thought. Saved by monkey gas.

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.

Apart from exercising, reading and watching movies also keep me occupied.

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

No girl, when she has been led to expect that a man is about to pour forth his soul in a fervour of passion, likes to find him suddenly shelving the whole topic in favour of an address on aquatic Salamandridae.

When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It's not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many of them mutually contradictory. To pass the time. To savor the existence of time. To escape from myself into someone else's world. To find myself in someone else's words. To exercise my critical capacities. To flee from the need for rational explanations. And even the obvious

The movies, once the nation's happy diversion, had become a scapegoat for those who were frightened by the changes rocking American society since the end of the war.

Allan decided he needed a little recreation. Something light hearted and non-committal. A quickie.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.