#distracted

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. ↗

— Zane Grey

#had #me #muddle #writing

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#embittered #lands #other #other lands #our

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#actually #age #any #around #asked

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#constitutional #conversation #couch #distracted #easily

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#any #blindness #comes #distracted #egg

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. ↗

— James Daly

#misinformation #noise #you

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better. ↗

— George Dzundza

#bit #distracted #focus #get #going

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily. ↗

— LeBron James

#easily #get #i #joke #laugh