Absentminded Quotes

#1. It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Gordon Getty

#2. She sat with that chewed-in yet absentminded smile on her face as if she'd been given a present she knew she would like, even if she hadn't got the wrapping off it yet.

Alice Munro

#3. Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.

Tim Downs

#4. If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

Zicheng Hong

#5. Supernatural healing was a handy trick for an absentminded vampire, although it would make my enemies harder to kill. Tit for tat, I guess.

Chloe Neill

#6. He looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his eyes, from his hair, from the abstracted way in which he managed his hands.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#7. Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when it comes to kendo."
"I'm also focused when I draw."
"Yeah. The problem is you're still drawing even when you don't have an actual pencil in your hand.

H.J. Brues

#8. Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi

#9. I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. I'm terrifically absentminded.

James Jannard

#11. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

Paula Poundstone

#13. Nutrients always act as a team. Comprehensive nutritional science must rise above the traditional piece-meal approach.

Roger Williams

#14. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.

Guy Kawasaki

#15. Weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

Peter F. Hamilton

#16. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

John C. Maxwell

#17. His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

Jack Kerouac

#18. One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Christopher Isherwood

#19. Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#20. No! I can't let you do that. That would be so lazy of me." "That is lazy of you, but you're my wife and I love you and I want you to have what you want." He starts to get up.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#21. You never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.

Marilynne Robinson

#22. I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#23. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

Blaise Pascal