Quotes About Diversions

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.

We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.

If deathmatch was a release from stress, work, family, and drudgery, it was a release that Carmack didn't need or, for that matter, understand. In fact, he had never really gotten the appeal most people found in hapless diversions. He would see things on television about drunken spring break beach weekends, and none of it would compute.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else." (Death of a Doxie)

He was out hunting for Cortman. It had become a relaxing hobby, hunting for Cortman; one of the few diversions left to him.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

Life doesn't always go the way you planned it to go. Sometimes you have detours you have to take.

Leiamos e dancemos, pois essas são duas diversões que nunca farão mal algum ao mundo. Voltaire

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.

Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one's greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design toilets. Writers become critics or publicists. Archaeologists, like myself, can become gravediggers.

Interruptions are the spice of life.

Cool your sorrow—we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.