Diversionary Quotes

#1. Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Joy Williams

#2. I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real.
-Abe Sapien

John Arcudi

#3. If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.
It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Without craziness, there is no courage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.

Marc Forster

#7. No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

Louis Sabin

#8. Well, they're splendid to amuse children with," said Diana. "Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour." "I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton's catalogue," said Mrs. Rachel severely.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#11. Charleston is an extraordinary place. There is a deep connection between the residents and nearly three hundred and fifty years of history, and those ties between daily life and the distant past are strengthened by the occasional glimpse beyond the veil.

James Caskey

#12. It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.

Butch Harmon

#13. Always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

John Linder

#15. Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Alfred Hitchcock

#16. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

Mark Shields

#17. I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

John Hodgman