Famous Quotes & Sayings

The philosophy is that these students need special, early attention in order to be ready for kindergarten and first grade. We want them, when they leave this program, to be at the same level as other students who have benefits and resources at home that they don't. Our goal is to equalize the playing field.

Arlen Specter

The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- his own personal problems.

John Tortorella

There are always different ways of getting their attention as we get going here. I think they understand how they have to conduct themselves. It's making sure that they really dial in.

When you play quarterback, people don't pay that much attention to what else you can do. The bottom line on Justin is he's got very good speed and he was one of the most physical players we had and he's a good coverage guy.

We always preach that if you're practicing well, you give yourselves a chance to win. If you don't practice well and don't pay attention to details, you can still win, but you don't give yourself the best chance.

We love the fact Lance has brought so many eyeballs and attention to the sport of cycling. But it's not just Lance.

We love the challenge of it. It's when we play our best football. Guys are more focused. We can go in there and take the crowd out of it. We like that pressure. It allows us more attention to detail.

We love playing those (power conference) teams. We'd love to play Florida next. I'm not saying they're overrated, but they've gotten a lot of attention and I'm sure they're a good team. But that's what we like -- teams from big conferences.

This relationship with Microsoft allows us to further enhance our marketing opportunities to draw attention to our shows from increasingly popular sites and formats. It's a perfect marriage of technology and content, and we believe it is also tailor-made to reach out to the target demographic for this hot new series from director Doug Liman.

There can be a little bit of a double standard in some offices about this. When men have pictures of family, people think, 'How sweet.' But when women have those same pictures, there might be the question of where her attention and where her focus are.

David Nabarro

There has been a shift in the susceptibility of wild fowl to H5N1. That's something that needs very careful attention if we're going to be ready for possible introduction of the bird flu virus in other locations through wild fowl.

When Bandon Dunes opened in 1999, it took the golf world by storm, but when Pacific Dunes opened in 2001, it wrested the attention from Bandon,

We're trying to call companies' attention to better risk management. Our goal is to make sure the companies we invest in are the best they can be.

We're tired of it. The job is now back in the hands of people who are willing to put in the time and effort to find a breeding pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers. I want to pay attention to the future.

We're not paying too much attention to (the trial) at all.

We're not paying attention to it. We're just trying to take it one game at a time.

Karl Hobbs

We're not paying attention to any of that foolishness. What we're paying attention to is that we want Pops to get double-digit rebounds. I want J.R. to take better shots. I want (senior forward) Mike Hall to take control of this team defensively. I want (senior forward) Omar (Williams) to step it up and be more aggressive. We're not caring about being in the top 20. I want to make that clear.

Todd Edwards

We think the stock market will now turn its attention to the unfolding cyclical turnaround in the Mexican economy.

To be quite honest, the kids like it, but I personally don't. It gives more people reason to fire up. You just draw attention to yourself.

David Walton

To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

To me the most important thing is when I look back on our defense was that they played together as a unit and they gave each other credit. We didn't have a bunch of individuals out there trying to draw attention to themselves. The focus of this unit was what I think was special with this group.

Cokie Roberts

We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.

We know that Sarah is always going to get a lot of attention from whoever plays us. So it's up to the rest of us to step up and keep things going.

We were really shocked by the findings, given all the media attention this epidemic has gotten. It's a public health disaster.

Brent Sutter

We weren't cheating tonight. Our attention to detail was that much better. Our awareness was much better and our awareness on the bench was much better.

We don't pay attention to outside opinion or rankings. We know how good we are, and that's all that matters to us.

Tim Smith

We don't pay any attention to that ranking. There are 15-or-so teams in the state that are about even.

Billy Donovan

We don't pay any attention to seeds. It doesn't matter if it's a No. 11 or a No. 14 or whatever. It's the team we have to play, not the seed.

John Grisham

We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private. But in these very, very rare circumstances -- this tragic time -- we hope the gift will get some attention and inspire other people to contribute money and help our fellow Mississippians on the Gulf Coast,

Barack Obama

We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It's pretty hard to focus a moment on which there was any attention given.

Dave Wannstedt

We can't look past anybody. I mean, obviously we'd be fools to even think of it. We had the team in here this morning at 6 o'clock, we cleaned up the tape and I think we got their attention about playing better and winning the game.

Dave Wannstedt

We can't look past anybody, ... I mean obviously we'd be fools to even think of it. We had the team in here this morning at 6 o'clock, we cleaned up the tape and I think we got their attention about playing better and winning the game.

We concentrated on one game at a time. We know that Mount de Sales is a quality team and that they deserved all of our attention tonight.