Distraction Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (D) Quotes

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they`ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

- Ben Stiller

I`ve never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

- Sarah McLachlan

I don`t want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

- Shania Twain

They (consumers) want information that will help them while driving without increasing their level of distraction.

- Jeff Taylor

Although we didn`t think the case had much merit, it is an expense and distraction for the city and for John and Mike, ... We are certainly happy that we can put this behind us.

- Bill Mueller

I feel pretty good, and we`ve still got a couple of weeks to get ready. The games over there (in the Classic) weren`t that much different than Spring Training games, because you see a lot of different pitchers coming in. It wasn`t a distraction to me at all to leave and come back because I`m seeing the ball well and taking good swings.

- Carlos Lee

The thing is, the whole thing stems from Gilbert telling them not to put me in the game. I didn`t come to practice because I was going to be a distraction. I was going to slap ... him. I`ll admit it, what I did was wrong -- not showing up was wrong -- but I ain`t saying what I would`ve done if I showed up would`ve been right. Being that I didn`t show up I didn`t put my hands on nobody. How a teammate, a supposed friend, would go to a coach and tell him don`t put me in a game, I would`ve done something seriously wrong to him.

- Kwame Brown

I don`t want my situation to be a distraction and a problem.

- LaVar Arrington

It is a distraction, ... But I won`t let it bother me. ... I can`t do anything about it. I can just do my job, and if I get shipped out of here, then it`s out of my hands.

- Michael Bennett

There`s so many, I can`t put a finger on it. There seems to be always something around here that`s a distraction, but you get used to it.

- Aubrey Huff

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

- Michael Moore

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

- John Boehner

I`d just as soon get it behind me because it`s a distraction,

- Arthur Anderson

Anything that is going to help reduce crime and the fear of crime, especially such problems as distraction burglaries, which Help the Aged is very concerned about, should be welcomed.

- Paul Bates

This creates quite a distraction and road hazard for people who are driving by.

- Michael Cook

(But it`s not all plain sailing. Provenco recently settled an insider trading case taken by the Securities Commission.) We felt we had a very strong defence but we decided to settle, ... For the amount of time and management distraction involved it just wasn`t worth fighting.

- David Ritchie

It`s been a distraction for her,

- Sarah Taylor

It is important to recognize when something is not working. I hope that my decision to leave will eliminate an unnecessary distraction for a great company.

- Michael Ovitz

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

- Bob Graham

Acclaim is a distraction.

- James Broughton

Nonsense is always a distraction.

- Jeff Van Gundy

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

- Abu Sharif

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

- Al Hubbard

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

- Alane Fagin

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Alexandre Barros

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Alexandre Barros

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

- Alfred Delaney

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

- Alli Macko

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There`s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent`s voice to resonate in the children`s ears.

- Amy Hall

You can always find a distraction if you`re looking for one.

- Andrew Fyfe

We made a business decision to settle this matter, without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, to enable our firm to move forward without the uncertainty and distraction of costly and protracted litigation in Arizona,

- Andy Brunner

The ebb and flow of these things can change. These kinds of personality debates can be not only a distraction, but they can cause people to divide over very unusual purposes.

- Ann Patterson

Losing Randy Moss, even with all his spectacular catches, probably improves their offense because it will make them a more cohesive unit. All that distraction will be gone. And (Daunte) Culpepper is capable of lighting it up.

- Ann Rice

It could be a very big distraction if the players and teams don`t show more discipline than they have during these exhibition games.

- Anthony Vasiliou

A lot of teams, a situation like the one me and Stephen are in would be a problem or a distraction,

- Anthony West

I think she was a distraction, because at the end of practice we would have 20 media members there to talk to a walk-on kicker who couldn`t kick it through the uprights, ... That was an issue.

- Anuranjan Kujur

whether it`s a valuable business tool, or whether it has the potential to be a distraction.

- Arron Sears

Video is inherently a greater distraction than just checking scores. With three games going on in your cube, give a guy a beer and he`s in a sports bar now.

- Aubrey Mackintosh

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

- Doug Horton

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc