Attention Spans Quotes

“It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don’t think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.”
― Graham Roumieu, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir

“I know of no pleasure like that of books, yet I read very little. Books are the entryway to dreams, but people at ease in life don't need such introductions to enter into conversation with dreams. I could never read a book and give myself over to it; always, with each step, the commentary of my intellect or my imagination interrupts the narrative sequence. After some minutes I am the one who writes and the writing is nowhere to be seen.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“One does not simply meme revolutions by halves. Even those with the shortest of attention spans could hold their focus for at least 9.81 meters per second squared.”
― Lil Low-Cu$$'t, The Swarm

“Things stop being funny if you have to explain them to people, especially if they need excellent attention spans.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Society In Opposition To Everything

“In the meantime, I had won the Booker Prize. That changed everything. Even though some communists said that it was all an imperialist plot, people were proud and happy that an Indian author had won a big international award. But to celebrate me wholeheartedly, The God of Small Things needed to be de- politicized. It began to be spoken of as a book about children, praised for its lyrical language and stripped of its politics. Stripped of its references to caste.
At the hearing in the High Court the judge said, ‘Every time
this case comes before me, I get chest pains.’ He kicked the can down the road. Each hearing was postponed for months and sometimes years. Over time my lawyer died, so did the judge. I can only hope that the chest pains induced by my book and the case against it were not the cause. More than ten years later, a new lawyer argued before a new judge and got the case dismissed.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me