Distract Me Quotes

#1. But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

Michael Vick

#3. I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

Sarah Manguso

#4. I was really putting a lot of pressure on this beer prop; it was going to distract me enough so that I didn't run around screaming like a lunatic on fire.

Jessica Fortunato

#5. I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being ... improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.

Veronica Wolff

#6. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#7. Yeah, but that doesn't mean it couldn't make it this far. Could be drugs, could be sex trade, could be horses."
"If the next option is sex with horses, I need you to stop right there."
"We're not in that part of Texas."
"I bet you look hot in the hat though."
"Stop trying to distract me!

Abigail Roux

#8. You can try to distract me with your kisses, sir, but I will come through with the goods in the end.

Leanne Hall

#9. She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I've considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off.

Amie Kaufman

#10. Forty thousand people in the stands couldn't distract me the way the absence of one could.

C.D. Reiss

#11. Calla," Shay called from the hall. "Without your nakedness to distract me, I'm remembering that we're in serious trouble. Hurry, please." page 436

Andrea Cremer

#12. My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

David Morrell

#13. I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

Ibn Ata Allah

#14. Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Lynda Barry

#15. While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

Adam Mansbach

#16. I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.

Ashley Benson

#17. Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.

Gail Carriger

#18. But if I paid attention, really paid attention maybe I could ignore the mountain of sadness and she might entertain and distract me and I would think this is life. The romance and the sadness. I am in it now. I did do that which is what happened.

Eileen Myles

#19. I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

Catherine Brady

#20. Tim Curry is God. He will distract me.

Nikki Rae

#21. There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.

Paul Auster

#22. In that moment I was deeply grateful to the Gypsies, and for the simplemindedness of the animal part of my brain; that a hot meal and a song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. Then

Ransom Riggs

#23. Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

Miranda Hart

#24. The job is the job, and I have no choice but to get it done. Bitching about it will only distract me, and let's be honest, has bitching about anything ever helped anybody?

Shane Kuhn

#25. A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Ransom Riggs

#26. Distract me, please

Stephenie Meyer

#27. I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Lu Xun

#28. I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#29. I can feel it, logic is trying to distract me but my heart it's screaming it's him.

Nikki Rowe

#30. For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Aimee Bender

#31. So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books.

Luisa Weiss

#32. Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

Jack W. Hayford

#33. When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

Cicely Tyson

#34. I'm sure you could distract me with something better than hand holding, sugar." He winked, then winced and sucked in a breath. "Holy f-f-f-f-fire truck. I think you just stitched my kidney.

Eden Summers

#35. I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

James Frey

#36. The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

Bill Watterson

#37. Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin.

Steve Aylett

#38. You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?

Julia Quinn

#39. You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.

Josh Lanyon

#40. A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Meat Loaf

#41. Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

Andy Borowitz

#42. Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Zubin Mehta

#43. Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories.

Maria V. Snyder

#44. I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

Reggie Bush

#45. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Joseph Addison

#46. I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.

Charlotte Eriksson

#47. Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine

#48. I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Taylor Swift

#49. His words distract me from the worry. "You have parents?"
"Of course," he says. "I didn't create myself.

J.M. Darhower

#50. No. Don't distract me with your sexy talk.

Rachel Hawkins

#51. I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?

Cassandra Clare

#52. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Andrew Carnegie

#53. To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

Kelley Armstrong

#54. So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. Religion - the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?" he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. "Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture -

Mary Doria Russell

#56. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.

Cat Clarke

#57. Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Russell Simmons

#58. Emotions don't distract high performers.

Abhishek Ratna

#59. Things are just that - things. They don't make us who we are. They make us look better on the outside, even when we're hollow on the inside. They're an illusion - the shiny objects that distract us from the really important things.

Chelle Bliss

#60. I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

Stephen Colbert

#61. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Andrew Carnegie

#62. Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.

Sidney Hook

#63. He took a deep breath. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. I don't know if I'm supposed to distract you. If I'm supposed to make you laugh, or if I'm supposed to be reassuring you. I have no idea what to do, so all I'm doing is just being here.

Tijan

#64. I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#65. No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

Stieg Larsson

#66. There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Paul Weller

#67. There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

Mooji

#68. It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Bob Edwards

#69. Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and

Michael Connelly

#70. It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

Elmore Leonard

#71. I don't like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.

Christine Teigen

#72. I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

Neil Marshall

#73. 'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Ray McKinnon

#74. A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

Roger McDonald

#75. I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

Dan Stevens

#76. Winston Churchill once said, "If you want to destroy them, distract them." And that's exactly what our adversary does; he distracts us completely from the greater cause, which is to pull together so we might know Christ and make Him known. Second

Darlene Zschech

#77. Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#78. Money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

Terry McMillan

#79. When we don't have dicks to distract us, we have the freedom to use our brain.

K.F. Breene

#80. That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger - not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

George Eliot

#81. Tiny concerns as well as large worries distract us from ourselves, hindering the peace of mind we all aspire to, whether we know it or not.

Fernando Pessoa

#82. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Anne Rice

#83. ... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters.

Penny Reid

#84. Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.

Peter Zumthor

#85. Visible mess helps distract us from the true source of the disorder.

Marie Kondo

#86. Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Scott Stossel

#87. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Lee Westwood

#88. Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Dana Reinhardt

#89. I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back!

Akif Pirincci

#90. I'll distract them," Carter said. "You search. The Trophy room is through there."
"Carter!"
But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

Rick Riordan

#91. They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn't really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment.

Gideon Defoe

#92. Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.

David Sedaris

#93. Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

James Harvey Robinson

#94. In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what make life bearable and what keeps us going no matter how hard it gets. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#95. When they despair, rather than acknowledging the poverty of their relationship with Jesus Christ, they seek to medicate the "down" feelings10 or distract themselves with activity.

Jim Berg

#96. But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

Veronica Roth

#97. I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it - there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.

Paula Hawkins

#98. When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Karin Slaughter

#99. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.

Elisabeth Elliot

#100. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

Andre Agassi