Quotes About Diversion

There were colonial administrators, supremely practical men, who consciously fostered the technique of subduing the lust for violence by diverting it into innocuous sporting channels.

y si de pronto hablaba tanto de sí mismo, de su vida «anterior», solo lo hacía para distraer la atención de su persona.

I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in How tall was and I saw How tall was Jesus, and I'm like, Sure, and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.

There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do.

In spite of all this love-making, by the end of this year, as delightful as it was swift, Sommervieux felt one morning the need for resuming his work and his old habits. His wife was expecting their first child. He saw some friends again. During the tedious discomforts of the year when a young wife is nursing an infant for the first time, he worked, no doubt, with zeal, but he occasionally sought diversion in the fashionable world.

As it happened, adiversion had presented itself: a new clerk, a small girl of flawless complexion, her straw-colored hair pulled back in a ponytail, with a face that renewed a man's faith in Possibility.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God's project in the world: it is the diversion of construction materials for the city of God to side projects of our own, often accompanied by jerry-built ideologies that seek to justify the diversion.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

I love video games.

I'm addicted - not video games, but board games.

The moving landscape provides an absorbing diversion which frees the mind & gives us a fresh viewpoint, & we're most at ease with the word when we walk because everything is happening at a manageable pace.

We were just somethin' for you and your friends to play with.

Although it felt much longer, within a few seconds the pilot came over the loudspeaker. He spoke in German and Roxanne couldn't discern much from the tone of his voice. Then she heard the passengers who could understand him audibly gasp. This made her even more frightened. Finally, in somewhat broken English, the pilot announced that airspace over the United States was closed and he had been ordered to land in Gander, Newfoundland. He offered no further explanation.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

'Mom...I'm bored.' 'Okay, if you're so bored why don't you clean this...' 'Nevermind I found something to do.'

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I just want to entertain.

I want to entertain.

I just want to keep people entertained.