Quotes tagged ‘Distraction’

“Maybe I’m not what you want; I’m just what distracts you until you get it. But I hope you still want me when you aren’t lonely.”

— Chloë Frayne, instagram.com

“Firewater: The melody came to me one night when I was getting super, super, SUPER baked. Like fuck-a-guy, baked. You know what I'm saying? [Frank shakes his head no] Yeah, he does. The song had a great hook and it caught on, I mean, you know... In time, everyone accepted this false truth. But over t…”

— Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel Shaffir, Kyle Hunter, Jonah Hill, Firewater / Tequila / El Guaco (voice), Bill Hader, imdb.com

“You've been blotting out my mind.”

— The Rolling Stones, open.spotify.com

“That’s very rude of you to just walk around shirtless knowing it’s very hard for me to concentrate!”

— I. Marlene King, Rebecca Serle, Paige Townsend, Bella Thorne, imdb.com

“Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind.”

— Georgia Lee, Anderson Dawes, Jared Harris, imdb.com

“Sabrina: Can you distract a room full of poets? Hilda: Easy. Salem: With your clothes on? Hilda: Oh.”

— Dan Berendsen, Hilda Spellman, Caroline Rhea, imdb.com

“Sabrina: Okay, you go and distract Roxie. Morgan: Okay. How? Sabrina: Haven't you ever distracted anyone before? Morgan: Well, yeah, but I don't think Roxie's gonna fall for the 'Oops, my strap broke!' trick. Sabrina: It's worth a shot.”

— Dan Kael, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“Stop listening to the static.”

— Craig Wright, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

“So easy to lose our way, to be distracted by our egos, our desires, our anger, and and fears, and forget what we're meant to do, and by forgetting, we hurt others.”

— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com

“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”

— Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com

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

— Julio Cortazar, amazon.com

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com

“Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don’t see enough.”

— Will Graham, imdb.com

“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“What is easiest to see is often overlooked.”

— Milton H. Erickson, miltonericksondvds.com

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com