So many times, I had chosen not to be with her. Too busy. Too tires. Don't feel like dealing with it. Church? No thanks. Sinner? Sorry. Come down to visit? Can't do it, maybe next week.
- Mitch Albom
If you hold back on the emotionsif you don't allow yourself to go all the
way through themyou can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid
of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
- Mitch Albom
Take any emotionlove for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotionsif you don't allow yourself to go all the way through themyou can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
- Mitch Albom
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
- Mitch Albom
Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.
- Jodi Picoult
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
- Kirstie Alley
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
- Martin Amis
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.
- Patricia Briggs
Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?
- Jane Austen
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect... you know... like being people.
- Toni Cade Bambara
We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It's about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don't practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect... you know... like being people.
- Toni Cade Bambara
Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of
Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry
because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good.
I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be
the same girl if she did.
- Maya Banks
There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron)
I was afraid. (Artemis)
And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don't feel your pain. I'm too busy with my own. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.
- Greg Behrendt
You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit.
- John Steinbeck
Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.
- Haruki Murakami
All you have to do is wait," I explained. "Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their sched...ules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair
- Haruki Murakami
Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.
- Rachael Bermingham
Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.
- Toba Beta
In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. (...) God is not in the forest. Maybe He is too busy looking after sports teams or worrying about teenagers having sex before marriage. I think they take up a lot of His time.
- Lauren Beukes
Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.
- Earle Birney
No, i'm too busy trying to deflect your power of stupidity. But i don't think i'm strong enought
- Kami Garcia
Oh," Jamie offered in a bright voice. "I could cook some--"
"NO!" Mae, Annabel, and Nick all exclaimed as one.
Annabel gave Nick a slightly startled look. He was too busy giving Jamie a forbidding look to notice.
"Look, I am getting better," Jamie argued.
"I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when you made that tin of beans explode."
"It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. "I am sure of this.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
- Anita Brookner
Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.
- Nicholas Sparks
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
- E A Bucchianeri
Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)
- Rick Riordan
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
- Leo Buscaglia
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
- Samuel Butler
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
- June Carter Cash
I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.
- Karen Chance
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
- Stephen King
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
- Frank A Clark
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
- Kurt Cobain
I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking terror its leaders wreak on the rest of the world because they're too busy worrying if their cat might be stuck up a tree or something.
- Rachel Cohn
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
- Robert A Heinlein
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
- Mason Cooley
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
- Katie Couric
... God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color... only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.
- Bryce Courtenay
And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.
- Lilith Saintcrow
...sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.
- Suzannah Daniels
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
- Ram Dass
I didn't mean to go after him, but no one was doing anything, and I'm probably the only one here who's actually been in the woods for real."
"Besideshe's British. What do they know about camping and wilderness survival and all that?"...
There too busy drinking tea and playing cricket. He would have been lost without me
- Heather Davis
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
- Ellen Degeneres
The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
- Graham Greene
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
- Jim Diamond
I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.
- Philip K Dick
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
- Everett Dirksen
I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.
- Rebecca Donovan
I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
- Matt Drudge
The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.
- Glen Duncan
If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
- Dorothy Dunnett
...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.
- Henry Miller
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.
- Robert Kennedy
One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.
- Elisabeth Elliot
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
- William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- William Faulkner
Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at "Saturday Night Live," and that is so cool.
- Tina Fey
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
- B C Forbes
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad's sardonic mutter of "Where's a tissue when I need one?"
I turned my face away from Bones after a long moment, ending our kiss, and called out,
"If you're not too busy watching Hitman, I hear Dracula 2000 is a good movie."
"Vicious," came Vlad's reply, amusement clear in his tone.
- Jeaniene Frost
He'd never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He'd never had to worry about these things before because he'd never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He'd been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.
- Gena Showalter
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
- Kenneth Grahame
Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs
- Samantha Gregory
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.
- Charlaine Harris
Kyouya my hair stylist. Mori-senpi go to the eye doctor and get him some contact lenses.
-Tamaki
What about me Tama-chan?
-Hunny
Hunny senpi.
-Tamaki
Yes sir!
-Hunny
You... go have some cake.
-Tamaki
It's just us Ousa-chan.Everyone else said they were too busy...
-Hunny
- Bisco Hatori
Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
- Shirley Henderson
Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.
- J K Rowling
But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much. -- Ginny Weasley
- J K Rowling
He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.
- Dalma Heyn
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.
- Benjamin Hoff
My parents' names are Rebecca and Jeremiah, by the way," he whispered as I approached him.
I laughed, jittery. "Got it. So even though they'll be too busy screaming at you, and they can't hear me anyway, I'll at least be able to address them properly?
- Tara Hudson
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
- Zora Neale Hurston
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
- Etta James
My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like
- Katie Kacvinsky
Starting tomorrow, I will stop procrastinating. Or, of I'm too busy putting things off, I'll start the following day.
- Jarod Kintz
Something can be humorous without being funny. The difference is when it's humorous, a person says, "That's funny," and when it's funny, a person can't say anything because they're too busy laughing.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.
- Terry Kath
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
- Jon Katz
The day I die, I'll be too busy thinking to notice he waved his hand as he left the ship.
- Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance
- A Z Kelvin
I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs
- Dexter S King
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
- Sophie Kinsella
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.
- Gordon Korman
Too Busy
I've folded all my laundry
and put it in the drawer.
I've changed my linen, made my bed,
and swept my bedroom floor.
I've emptied out the garbage
and fixed tomorrow's lunch.
I've baked some cookies for dessert
and given dad a munch.
I've searched the house for pencils
and sharpened every one.
There are so many things to do
when homework must be done.
- Bruce Lansky
I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.
- Miranda Leek
I see someone who is afraid of giving up the only dream that will make them happy because he's too busy doing what everyone else wants him to do.
- M Leighton
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
- Carl Lewis
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
- Charles De Lint
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
- James Lipton
A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
- Ashly Lorenzana
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
- Lydia Lunch
A few minutes of solitude in majestic nature is bliss and is food for the soul. Lucky are the ones who can have it for they have indeed enriched their souls. People too busy to take time out for these moments to connect with their souls through nature have definitely suffered unknowingly. So take heed and take time out each day to connect with nature for that is food for the soul.
- Sohail Mahmood
He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed.
Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.
- Sarah Mayberry
You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead.
- Lish Mcbride
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
- Colum Mccann
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
- Jenny Mccarthy
I don't remember this earlier,' said Tuck.
'No?' said Robin in a neutral voice, and Tuck was too busy to pursue it, but merely bound it up and told him it was time for him, too, to try to sleep. Robin never had to tell anyone of his meeting, weaponless and with an armful of dead branches to break up for firewood, with one of Guy's men. The next day, when the burying began, no one questioned the body of another mercenary.
- Robin Mckinley
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
- Lennart Meri
I spent a restless night plagued with excruciating dreams of Adam sucking me off in front of Matt, Jay and my mother. Matt and Jay weren't paying much attention, being too busy excavating each other's tonsils with their tongues, but Mum was staring with folded arms and narrowed eyes, occasionally muttering, Oh, for heaven's sake, Timothyshow a little enthusiasm!
- J L Merrow
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
- Jeff Miller
What I want," he purred, cupping my jaw and rubbing my bottom lip with the pad of his thumb, "is you being too busy thinking about me to think about anyone else.
- Raine Miller
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.
But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.
To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn't complain.
What's your excuse?
- Vera Nazarian
Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job.
- Jana Oliver
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
- Kelly Osbourne
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
- Camille Paglia
I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.
- Minnie Pearl
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up
- Alexandra Potter
When two or three people come together in the name of Neverland then I will be there amidst them or if I am too busy or have a better offer, then I will send a proxy or you can just have the tantrum without me, whatever. (King James Version: Gospel of St. Peter (of Pan)Verse: Blah Paragraph: Blah, blah
- Daniel Prokop
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
- Anna Quindlen
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
- Aidan Quinn
I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
- Gordon Ramsay
You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
- Henry Rollins
I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
- Christy Romano
I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.
- Christy Romano
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is a ll closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
- May Sarton
You just take and take don't you? Out there with your thumb in the airnot a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you're ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course notyou're too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.
- David Sedaris
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
- Alan Shearer
He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
- Mona Simpson
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell
So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy.
You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable.
- Elizabeth Smart
I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to ignore. Friends to rip off. An apartment I hated on sight to pay for and move into.
- Jerry Stahl
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
- Rex Stout
It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
- George Takei
Life is something we have to experience, really feel, not just study for with books in a library. Learning is about so much more than school. If we're too busy studying, we miss out on the experience.
- Valerie Thomas
His gaze fell to her lips then lingered on her neck.
"As you so invitingly put it, I'd be too busy chewing on people."
- Jennifer Turner
Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.
- Mark Vonnegut
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
- Kanye West
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
- Katharine Whitehorn
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
- Dennis Wilson
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
- Lin Yutang
- Mitch Albom
If you hold back on the emotionsif you don't allow yourself to go all the
way through themyou can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid
of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
- Mitch Albom
Take any emotionlove for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotionsif you don't allow yourself to go all the way through themyou can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
- Mitch Albom
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
- Mitch Albom
Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.
- Jodi Picoult
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
- Kirstie Alley
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
- Martin Amis
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.
- Patricia Briggs
Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?
- Jane Austen
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect... you know... like being people.
- Toni Cade Bambara
We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It's about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don't practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect... you know... like being people.
- Toni Cade Bambara
Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of
Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry
because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good.
I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be
the same girl if she did.
- Maya Banks
There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron)
I was afraid. (Artemis)
And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don't feel your pain. I'm too busy with my own. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.
- Greg Behrendt
You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit.
- John Steinbeck
Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.
- Haruki Murakami
All you have to do is wait," I explained. "Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their sched...ules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair
- Haruki Murakami
Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.
- Rachael Bermingham
Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.
- Toba Beta
In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. (...) God is not in the forest. Maybe He is too busy looking after sports teams or worrying about teenagers having sex before marriage. I think they take up a lot of His time.
- Lauren Beukes
Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.
- Earle Birney
No, i'm too busy trying to deflect your power of stupidity. But i don't think i'm strong enought
- Kami Garcia
Oh," Jamie offered in a bright voice. "I could cook some--"
"NO!" Mae, Annabel, and Nick all exclaimed as one.
Annabel gave Nick a slightly startled look. He was too busy giving Jamie a forbidding look to notice.
"Look, I am getting better," Jamie argued.
"I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when you made that tin of beans explode."
"It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. "I am sure of this.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
- Anita Brookner
Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.
- Nicholas Sparks
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
- E A Bucchianeri
Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)
- Rick Riordan
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
- Leo Buscaglia
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
- Samuel Butler
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
- June Carter Cash
I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.
- Karen Chance
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
- Stephen King
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
- Frank A Clark
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
- Kurt Cobain
I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking terror its leaders wreak on the rest of the world because they're too busy worrying if their cat might be stuck up a tree or something.
- Rachel Cohn
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
- Robert A Heinlein
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
- Mason Cooley
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
- Katie Couric
... God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color... only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.
- Bryce Courtenay
And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.
- Lilith Saintcrow
...sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.
- Suzannah Daniels
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
- Ram Dass
I didn't mean to go after him, but no one was doing anything, and I'm probably the only one here who's actually been in the woods for real."
"Besideshe's British. What do they know about camping and wilderness survival and all that?"...
There too busy drinking tea and playing cricket. He would have been lost without me
- Heather Davis
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
- Ellen Degeneres
The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
- Graham Greene
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
- Jim Diamond
I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.
- Philip K Dick
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
- Everett Dirksen
I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.
- Rebecca Donovan
I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
- Matt Drudge
The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.
- Glen Duncan
If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
- Dorothy Dunnett
...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.
- Henry Miller
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.
- Robert Kennedy
One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.
- Elisabeth Elliot
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
- William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- William Faulkner
Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at "Saturday Night Live," and that is so cool.
- Tina Fey
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
- B C Forbes
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad's sardonic mutter of "Where's a tissue when I need one?"
I turned my face away from Bones after a long moment, ending our kiss, and called out,
"If you're not too busy watching Hitman, I hear Dracula 2000 is a good movie."
"Vicious," came Vlad's reply, amusement clear in his tone.
- Jeaniene Frost
He'd never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He'd never had to worry about these things before because he'd never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He'd been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.
- Gena Showalter
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
- Kenneth Grahame
Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs
- Samantha Gregory
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.
- Charlaine Harris
Kyouya my hair stylist. Mori-senpi go to the eye doctor and get him some contact lenses.
-Tamaki
What about me Tama-chan?
-Hunny
Hunny senpi.
-Tamaki
Yes sir!
-Hunny
You... go have some cake.
-Tamaki
It's just us Ousa-chan.Everyone else said they were too busy...
-Hunny
- Bisco Hatori
Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
- Shirley Henderson
Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.
- J K Rowling
But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much. -- Ginny Weasley
- J K Rowling
He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.
- Dalma Heyn
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.
- Benjamin Hoff
My parents' names are Rebecca and Jeremiah, by the way," he whispered as I approached him.
I laughed, jittery. "Got it. So even though they'll be too busy screaming at you, and they can't hear me anyway, I'll at least be able to address them properly?
- Tara Hudson
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
- Zora Neale Hurston
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
- Etta James
My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like
- Katie Kacvinsky
Starting tomorrow, I will stop procrastinating. Or, of I'm too busy putting things off, I'll start the following day.
- Jarod Kintz
Something can be humorous without being funny. The difference is when it's humorous, a person says, "That's funny," and when it's funny, a person can't say anything because they're too busy laughing.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.
- Terry Kath
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
- Jon Katz
The day I die, I'll be too busy thinking to notice he waved his hand as he left the ship.
- Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance
- A Z Kelvin
I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs
- Dexter S King
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
- Sophie Kinsella
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.
- Gordon Korman
Too Busy
I've folded all my laundry
and put it in the drawer.
I've changed my linen, made my bed,
and swept my bedroom floor.
I've emptied out the garbage
and fixed tomorrow's lunch.
I've baked some cookies for dessert
and given dad a munch.
I've searched the house for pencils
and sharpened every one.
There are so many things to do
when homework must be done.
- Bruce Lansky
I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.
- Miranda Leek
I see someone who is afraid of giving up the only dream that will make them happy because he's too busy doing what everyone else wants him to do.
- M Leighton
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
- Carl Lewis
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
- Charles De Lint
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
- James Lipton
A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
- Ashly Lorenzana
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
- Lydia Lunch
A few minutes of solitude in majestic nature is bliss and is food for the soul. Lucky are the ones who can have it for they have indeed enriched their souls. People too busy to take time out for these moments to connect with their souls through nature have definitely suffered unknowingly. So take heed and take time out each day to connect with nature for that is food for the soul.
- Sohail Mahmood
He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed.
Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.
- Sarah Mayberry
You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead.
- Lish Mcbride
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
- Colum Mccann
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
- Jenny Mccarthy
I don't remember this earlier,' said Tuck.
'No?' said Robin in a neutral voice, and Tuck was too busy to pursue it, but merely bound it up and told him it was time for him, too, to try to sleep. Robin never had to tell anyone of his meeting, weaponless and with an armful of dead branches to break up for firewood, with one of Guy's men. The next day, when the burying began, no one questioned the body of another mercenary.
- Robin Mckinley
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
- Lennart Meri
I spent a restless night plagued with excruciating dreams of Adam sucking me off in front of Matt, Jay and my mother. Matt and Jay weren't paying much attention, being too busy excavating each other's tonsils with their tongues, but Mum was staring with folded arms and narrowed eyes, occasionally muttering, Oh, for heaven's sake, Timothyshow a little enthusiasm!
- J L Merrow
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
- Jeff Miller
What I want," he purred, cupping my jaw and rubbing my bottom lip with the pad of his thumb, "is you being too busy thinking about me to think about anyone else.
- Raine Miller
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.
But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.
To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn't complain.
What's your excuse?
- Vera Nazarian
Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job.
- Jana Oliver
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
- Kelly Osbourne
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
- Camille Paglia
I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.
- Minnie Pearl
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up
- Alexandra Potter
When two or three people come together in the name of Neverland then I will be there amidst them or if I am too busy or have a better offer, then I will send a proxy or you can just have the tantrum without me, whatever. (King James Version: Gospel of St. Peter (of Pan)Verse: Blah Paragraph: Blah, blah
- Daniel Prokop
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
- Anna Quindlen
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
- Aidan Quinn
I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
- Gordon Ramsay
You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
- Henry Rollins
I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
- Christy Romano
I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.
- Christy Romano
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is a ll closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
- May Sarton
You just take and take don't you? Out there with your thumb in the airnot a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you're ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course notyou're too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.
- David Sedaris
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
- Alan Shearer
He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
- Mona Simpson
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell
So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy.
You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable.
- Elizabeth Smart
I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to ignore. Friends to rip off. An apartment I hated on sight to pay for and move into.
- Jerry Stahl
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
- Rex Stout
It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
- George Takei
Life is something we have to experience, really feel, not just study for with books in a library. Learning is about so much more than school. If we're too busy studying, we miss out on the experience.
- Valerie Thomas
His gaze fell to her lips then lingered on her neck.
"As you so invitingly put it, I'd be too busy chewing on people."
- Jennifer Turner
Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.
- Mark Vonnegut
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
- Kanye West
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
- Katharine Whitehorn
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
- Dennis Wilson
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
- Lin Yutang
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