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Quotes About Distracted

She lay on her side, bending her elbow to casually prop her head in her hand. With a sigh she said, "Bowen, I took you on as my pet project because I like to ogle you. Due to your rowr factor." Her distracted gaze flickered over his face and the bandaged end of his arm. "If you're not going to keep yourself up, well—
~ Kresley Cole
Dexter, please put your shirt on. Valkyrie's getting distracted." "I'm not," she said, then smiled at Vex. "You don't have to put your shirt on.
~ Derek Landy
Grayson looked at me again. This time his gaze traveled form my hair down, and he let me see that he was looking. What he meant by this was that he thought I was beautiful, it was not just my miraculous hair, and we shouldn't be distracted from our true love by the pesky detail that he was blackmailing me into dating his brother. Right.
~ Jennifer Echols
The state of being frantic, overextended and distracted drives people away rather than drawing them in and inviting them to the refuge of your company.
~ Andi Ashworth
One of the guardians distracted Ryan while the other—Dimitri, I now saw— grabbed Camille . She screamed, not faking her fear. She apparently didn't find being in Dimitri's arms as thrilling as I did. Mead, Richelle (2008-11-13). Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 47). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.
~ Richelle Mead
I believe that if we dispense with mythologies that have distracted us from the reality we find ourselves in, we can make capitalism work for most of us rather than for only a relative handful.
~ Robert B. Reich
increasing cognitive loadfn8 should make people more conservative. This is precisely the case. The time pressure of snap judgments is a version of increased cognitive load. Likewise, people become more conservative when tired, in pain or distracted with a cognitive task, or when blood alcohol levels rise.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
~ Kathryn Lasky
With the bulk of the public both manipulated and distracted by political parties and the corporate mass media, no one seems capable of discerning, much less opposing, this New World Order of elitists with corporate, family, and class connections and common interests.
~ Jim Marrs
I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.
~ Boy George
I was too absorbed to be responsive
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.
~ Colleen Atwood
His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
~ Lois Lowry
He pinpointed the reservoir from the man's pilot relief tube, already half-full. "Must be a nervous sort of fellow—" He set it to backwash at full power, and checked the audio transmitter. Savage swearing filled the air briefly, overridden by a snarl calling for radio silence. "Now, there is one distracted soldier.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
At work you will be lachrymose and distracted. You will shuffle through the hall like a legume with feet. People will notice.
~ Lorrie Moore
Disaster can strike at any moment, but we forget this, distracted by the bright, shiny comforts of our everyday lives. Wrapped in a false sense of security, we fall asleep, and in this dream, our life passes.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet him.
~ Anonymous
But Martha was cumbered about much serving.
~ Anonymous
Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it's very easy. But then you're distracted. If you're looking at the shot, you aren't following the story any more.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
There are a lot of distractions in London, which is the downside to things, for a lot of young footballers as well, and my aim is to beat that. I don't want to get distracted by anything, my aim is to concentrate on football and do the best I can.
~ Yannick Bolasie
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Kelley Blue Book is raising awareness for distracted driving and trying to grow that awareness for people to make our roads safer. The biggest issue is people texting and being on their phone while driving, but it goes further than that. The safety and the awareness is so important.
~ Chase Elliott
I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.
~ Allan McNish