271 Quotes About Distraction

Dad's on a fishing boat in front of Carter's estate. If we get into trouble, all I have to do is press the button on the tiny transmitter in my pocket and he'll destroy the dome on top of Carter's house. Is that enough of a distraction for you?""Maybe we can work out something a little more subtle.

Can I do anything for you? Bake you cookies? Walk your dogs? Throw snowballs? Just generally be a distraction?

daily bombardment of idiocy

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Are you going to distract me by playing footsie?""Absolutely, princess," he says with a wink. "Then I won't remember a thing.""It's a samurai training technique," he teases, spinning the test prep book toward him. "I distract you as much as possible right now." He slides the book into his lap. "And you'll learn how to test through anything.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at...

When people can’t bury themselves with work, they can’t run away from their feelings and all it needs is a little free time to reveal who they are.

Careful with pre-assumptions. A pre-assumption may be a distraction by default.

The pair of glasses is too heavy, his nose and eye show me, all the way, all of a sudden, not suddenly.