Quotes About Diversion

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

No, the path of God has often been diverted to lead to a human desire, the word of God twisted to suit human ambition. Were

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.

The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. The person who comes into a fellowship because he is running away from himself is misusing it for the sake of diversion, no matter how spiritual this diversion may appear. He is really not seeking community at all, but only distraction which will allow him to forget his loneliness for a brief time, the very alienation that creates the deadly isolation of man.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

I'm glad to have her company to take my mind off things.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

he bought his farm. The grueling work that had so worn on him during his boyhood now became for him both a soul-saving diversion and a romantic harking back to America's past.

There is nothing like the diversion of travel for one who is mentally fagged.

I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.

At a time when every series we're supposed to be DVR-ing is very important, very serious, has to do with heavy, heavy matters, I think 'Wet Hot' provides a respite to that DVR homework. It's totally the gummy bears of your programming.

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

I mean, movies need distraction.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.