Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time, ... The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Leaders of the opposition said it had been done deliberately to take attention away from their demonstration.

Many of our neighbors are classic Mundelein alums and they are thrilled to see their beloved building finally getting the attention it deserves.

Several people have come forward stating that they are concurring with what Mark is saying. And they, too, want attention to safety, and they're raising the concerns through the proper channels.

Tom Benson

Sean impressed me with his attention to detail, and his work ethic.

Solaris has done very well as far as it being a leading Unix operating system for Sun, but how much attention has Solaris attracted outside of Sun? ... You could go through the other key software products and say the same thing.

She tries not to pay attention (to the disease). She just deals with it.

Mary Taylor

She was a quiet person, stern but fair. When she walked into a room, she would get your attention without saying a word.

She was getting a little frustrated. I know other teams are going to pay special attention to her. But after we moved her back, we got better results. She had more room to work with and she sees the field better than most from back there.

Brian Miller

She will not brag on herself. That's true. It's hard to get her to brag. The attention she's gotten, the awards she's received, she uses those as a platform to talk about issues that she thinks are important, not for self-aggrandizement.

She's a superstar, and she brings attention wherever she goes, whether it's a department store that's closed or an author who's misled her.

She's battled at times this year just because she's the focus of attention defensively. And we simply haven't done a good job of getting her the ball. I think at times that has frustrated her.

Diane Keaton

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

We're giving her a lot of different defensive looks. All the attention is going to be directed toward her. She may get up as many shots as she has in the past, but they'll be very difficult looks.

We're showing the world your company in a very short period of time and in a very small space. We have to get the right brand and the right message out there. When somebody is walking through a hall, you have their attention for about three seconds. You need to transmit a message to them within that time, make them understand what you're selling. There's a lot of thought that goes into these things.

Richard Holbrooke

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.

Sherry Argov

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

Robert Redford

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

Marco Brambilla

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

Making the show the first week was good. You always want to get off to a good start. It helps you keep your attention for the rest of the swing.

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

Gin Wigmore

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

The picture is going to change, it has to change. Definitely there are some healthy areas, but overall the trends are not good. It's time serious attention is given and not just lip service.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

Richard Daley

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Tim Jackson

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.

Ira Glass

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

Margaret Heffernan

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Lupe Fiasco

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

Dick Cheney

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.