“He has the attention span of a hummingbird.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Robert Redford, quoted in Maureen Dowd, "Testing Himself," The New York Times (1986-09-28), section 6, page 16, column 1
“He has the attention span of a hummingbird.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Sloppy Firsts
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
08 Nov 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
“I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.”
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
" High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/a235/frances-bean-cobain-0308/" (2008)
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
Upton Sinclair book The Profits of Religion
Book One : The Church of the Conquerors, "The Priestly Lie"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Context: When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity; he saw this event as the act of an individual intelligence. To-day we read about fairies and demons, dryads and fauns and satyrs, Wotan and Thor and Vulcan, Freie and Flora and Ceres, and we think of all these as pretty fancies, play-products of the mind; losing sight of the fact that they were originally meant with entire seriousness—that not merely did ancient man believe in them, but was forced to believe in them, because the mind must have an explanation of things that happen, and an individual intelligence was the only explanation available. The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.
“Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
Speaking of Frank Sinatra
Larry King interview (2005)