Diversion Quotes
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
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There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.
