Distrait Quotes & Sayings

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. — Alfred Hitchcock

In our current distorted reality, land is often held speculatively without being put to productive use. Because people are able to profit from land and use it inefficiently, sprawl is an issue and farmland is constantly at risk of rezoning, thus forcing up the cost of all farmland.

Land contributions would remove the profit from land speculation and inefficient use, releasing more farmland and also ensuring existing farmland wasn't constantly under the shadow of rezoning. Labour and capital taxes would reduce and thus also farming costs. Overall, farming costs would reduce and farmland would be sustainably available for agriculture. — Martin Adams

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else. — Chris Evans

That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book". (Qur'an The Prophets 21:104. — Qur'an

I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic. — Steve Jobs

Close and far is like already happened and not happened yet. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong. — Sarah Dessen

Sturgis had now become involved in a long story of his early manhood, and even had Soapy been less distrait he might have found it difficult to enjoy it to the full. It was about an acquaintance of his who had kept rabbits, and it suffered in lucidity from his unfortunate habit of pronouncing rabbits 'roberts', combined with the fact that by a singular coincidence the acquaintance had been a Mr. Roberts. Roberts, it seemed, had been deeply attached to roberts. In fact, his practice of keeping roberts in his bedroom had led to trouble with Mrs. Roberts, and in the end Mrs. Roberts had drowned the roberts in the pond and Roberts, who thought the world of his roberts and not quite so highly of Mrs. Roberts, had never forgiven her. — P.G. Wodehouse

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else. — Miranda July

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa. — Wilbur Smith

Every day, give yourself a good mental shampoo. — Sara Jordan

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. — Brigitte Nielsen