Absentmindedness Quotes

#1. I was counting the blades of grass, he said, by way of apology for his absentmindedness. It's a sort of pastime of mine. Rather irritating, I'm afraid.

W.G. Sebald

#2. In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

Peter Schmeichel

#3. I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Marilyn Monroe

#4. These are little things but sometimes it's the little things that sting the most.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. He created Adam for adventure, battle and beauty; he created us for a unique place in his story and he is committed to bringing us back to the original design.

John Eldredge

#7. Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

Mort Sahl

#9. Fun. It's this crazy thing where people smile and laugh and are generally pleased. I could have sworn I saw you smile at least once

Agatha Bird

#10. In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

Shelley Long

#11. You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

Colin Meloy

#12. To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment ... would result in the demolition of society.

Karl Polanyi