“Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer”
“I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”
“Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?”
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
“But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.”
“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.”