Quotes of: Distraction Keyword

Distracted from distraction by distraction

T.S. Eliot

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

Danny Aiello

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Nik Wallenda

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Ray Bradbury

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Derek Jeter

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Tom Noonan

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

Fletcher, I've been around for a long time. I've been in love too many times to count. I'd like to say it gets easier, but it doesn't. The pain you're feeling now is the pain you're going to feel again and again. The advantage of having lived through...

Love

Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his nose.

Malagasy

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Meat Loaf

Jim Court: You're not a permanent part of her life. You're a distraction. Lloyd Dobler: I'm the distraction that's going with her to England, sir.

Say Anything...

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offersus aless busy heart.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

Sarah Churchwell

A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.

Christopher Lloyd

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

Cathleen Schine

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

Howard Rheingold