Quotes About Diversion

I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.

I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

I think it would do you good to get away from the office and get your mind off business for a while.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, and his chief construction engineer on the site, an Arkansas-born bulldog named L. F. "Lem" Wylie, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Floyd Dominy had sanctioned January 21 as the day the diversion tunnel in the west wall of the canyon would be sealed.

He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

We are here for our amusement.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.

All that was missing was the hookah and the belly dancers. Charles le Mesurier was sitting in

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts divert attention from the secret influences around the recorded events.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.

Each CAT team member is equipped with a fully automatic SR-16 rifle, a SIG Sauer P229 pistol, flash bang grenades for diversionary tactics, and smoke grenades. CAT agents also may be armed with Remington breaching shotguns, a weapon that has been modified with a short barrel. The shotgun may be loaded with nonlethal Hatton rounds to blow the lock off a door.