#diversion

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#create #diversions #economic #economic growth #elected

A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#entertainment #reading #skipping #attitude

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#diversion #eyes #important #men #more

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#diversion #flies #his #just #pop

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson. ↗

— James Longstreet

#any #batteries #before #city #diversion

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#better #better ways #constantly #diversion #hunger

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#diversion #important #me #opera