Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did this just to bring attention to our fight with Northwest Airlines.

We didn't play well and they did -- that's a nasty combination. We ran into a Forest Grove team that is fighting for a playoff spot, had a week off and I think we got their attention last time we played them.

Linda Ellerbee

We are heading in a lot of dangerous ways. The Chinese character for danger is also for opportunity, so it's not necessarily bad. It's just that as journalists, I believe we have to pay particular attention here.

Michael Connelly

We are greatly encouraged by the success and national attention Massachusetts has earned when it decided that health insurance is something no one should go without. We want to build on that progress and keep this important dialogue going in order to make covering the uninsured a national priority.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Vikas Swarup

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

Elliott Abrams

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

Ferran Adria

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

Justin Trudeau

For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.

Carey Lowell

All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

Christopher Darden

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

Kelly Olynyk

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

James Gleick

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

Jane McGonigal

When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

We had a (Nissan) 350Z roadster and the seat controls are under the right side bolster of the seat. We'll comment on it. Or on the BMW, we faulted the I-Drive system for its user interface. Or they'll look at how you switch from AM to FM on the radio. On some cars, the engineers found they had to take their attention away from driving.

Anthony Johnson

When you see (Detroit) on the schedule, you kind of circle those dates because our fans and their fans really pay attention to this game. There was a lot of excitement out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

Nancy Kress

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Albert Einstein

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Albert Einstein

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

We want to continue working on being aggressive, so we can be automatic for our next few matches. It's really hard to play that way. It requires a lot of effort for one thing, and you got to pay attention so that you can do it naturally.

We want the fans and teams and officials when they land in Indianapolis to know that all attention is on the Final Four.

We want to be kind of like the guy that sneaks up in the night and knocks you out. (If) they get all the attention and everything, it is cool with us. It has been like that all year.

Claire Tomalin

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Steffi Graf

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

Steven Seagal

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

Russell Wilson

I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Marta

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.

Marlee Matlin

I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Orhan Pamuk

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Olivia Hussey

It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.