Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction. – Joel Osteen
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. – Cornel West
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it’s a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else. – George Clooney
I think when things linger, that’s when they become a distraction. I don’t want any distractions. – Derek Jeter
I don’t do gossipy interviews because I don’t think that helps; I think that’s a distraction. – George Stroumboulopoulos
I think there is only one way to write fiction – alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. – Paul Theroux
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a ‘ready-made’ or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn’t have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything. – Marcel Duchamp
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
The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward. – Kimbal Musk
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. – Kit Williams
I don’t look at Twitter between events because it’s a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it’s going. – Jessica Ennis
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction. – Seth Godin
I can’t write a line without music – it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates. – Stacy Schiff
In one sense, Obama’s point couldn’t be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race. – Sarah Churchwell
