Irving Stone Quotes

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

I don't know where my phone is half the time.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

I'm terrifically absentminded.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.

I'm naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.

I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

I'm a very distracted person.