Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I stared at something distracting while he talked so I could listen better"

• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• And so he sailed the wine-dark stars
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• Talk to Strangers and Learn Something New
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• He is so heavy when he whispers
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• stop trying so hard, and just do. you'll do better.
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• The guy who talks to you while you're taking a piss
• So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
• So she could feel as if she had danced
• I never thought a picture could cause so much pain
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• He ain't no movie star
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• The elephant that wished he could fly
• He would shrink into the sky if he could
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• So why talk about politics now
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• infinity isn't anything until you are among the stars searching for something you lost
• Men who are willing to listen to women talk about their periods
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• Oh, that it were so simple. That I could just utter those words.
• I am someone and I wish so much I could help you
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• If eyes could talk
• I'm scared to death of what havoc he could wreak in my life
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• He loved her so much, he wanted to do her autopsy
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• I sealed up my future where he could not get it.
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• So you want to be a star?
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• I hope they kill me while I'm standing here, so I can die happy.
• Ten stars or so
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• There's you pushing me in a swing while I watched the stars.
• Something Even Better
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• The time a thug punched my friend in the face because he could
• In the end, he could quiet his mind only by dying
• I'm so toasty, you could spread jam on me
• Your version of my story is probably so much better than the real one anyway.
• My father never made promises he could not keep. My father never promised anything.
• If these walls could talk
• Over and over it would rain so that we could not dig the body up
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• My crush asked if he could kiss me
• if only he could hear my silent cries
• You could be so delicious
• i could eat alphabet soup and SHIT a better diagram!
• They did so because they believed they could.
• A Quick One (While He's Away)
• He just wanted to give me something he forgot to give me a long time ago
• makes you wonder how you ever felt affection for somebody who could hate you so
• Just as it could not imprison itself with laws, impoverish itself with money or misguide itself with leaders, so it would not misrepresent itself with signs.
• for() is better than while()
• She grew a little older, while he was telling her
• He made the stars speak to me in Morse Code
• When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
• He had something to say. He said it.
• Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• So, he's leaving
• He said I'm better off without you, 'til I showed him my tattoo
• Wish for Something Better
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• he doesn't talk
• He speaks so well!
• I want the stars so bright they make me breathless
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• Songs Hazelnut Listened To So You Don't Have To
• I have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• Mull around in my mind for a while and you'll find so many treasure troves and so many graveyards that you won't be able to tell the difference between them
• So while Faust is busy trying to wipe the blood off his face and Shorty's trying to claw his eyes out, I mosey away and try my hand at storming the castle
• don't think so loudly; whisper something in my ear
• Talk to me like the rain and let me listen
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• something to ruminate on while twisting my mustache
• While The Black Stars Burn
• This is the last talk. Do you want to sit together quietly for a while? All right, sirs, sit quietly for a while.
• While the Angels Blindly Stared
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• How can I pour your wine while my hands shake so?
• And so he sailed the wine-dark sea
• you could have done better with this letter of yours, miss
• A lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying
• better
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Better Than Ezra
• better, faster, cheaper
• I look better when I am wet
• Music was better in the old days
• Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
• Nobody Does It Better
• females are better than males
• Why Cucumbers are Better than Men
• Much better than a piss test
• Treatment of corporations
• The book is better than the movie
• Everything's better with vocoders!
• A better place
• 10 reasons E2 is better than sleep
• It's better to have loved and lost
• An easy way to make not-so-good food much better
• Ideas are better than apples
• Why chocolate is better than sex
• CD vs. vinyl
• When life gives you lemons, grab it by the throat and demand better
• It's better to be hated than ignored
• The pros and cons of leaving your computer on
• Better in the original
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• It doesn't get any better than this
• Better Living Through Circuitry
• It's better to be alone than to wish you were
• while a waitress pours coffee
• Exhaustion is better than drugs
• If I am doomed to sweat my ass off in my own apartment, I feel better if I'm blasting music
• Why underground music is "better" than commercial music
• Bugger this: I want a better world
• Why IRC is better than Real Life
• Why Real Life is better than IRC
• six steps to better software
• I have children; therefore I am better than you
• Are we better than everything else?
• A better life through lying
• Is there a kind of information you're better off not having?
• This child has talent. She needs a better box of paints.
• Some Days are Better than Others
• 'Tis better to die as a lion than to live 1000 years as a dog
• A better door
• all other times are better than 6 am
• Better Business Bureau
• all better
• I saw a queue and thought, "I'd better join it"
• What Everything does better than anything else
• Smurfs are the key to a better world
• Not everything is better spoken aloud
• I can degrade myself better than you can
• Better the devil you know
• Original better than the sequel
• How do we know dog biscuits are "now better tasting!"?
• There's no better mirror than a child
• You had better...!!!
• Nothing's better than rocking out
• Is a crush better than a relationship?
• Making a Better Plastic Cup
• My Bitch Better Have My Money
• Better safe than sorry
• Tourist children's souls taste better
• If you think hugs are better than drugs, you haven't tried LSD
• It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
• The next life will be better
• Half a loaf is better than none
• Jiffy Pop, for better or for worse?
• Rebeca Martinez
• Getting Better
• What can be better than that?
• had better
• Better Days
• better late than never
• There were times better than this
• E2 can only get better (e2poll)
• I've got better things to do than drugs
• Love will fill us up, will make us better than
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom
• I know better than you do that I've got a hold on you.
• Better things to do? (e2poll)

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