Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan King

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

Confucius

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Dalai Lama

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Bill Cosby

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

Billy Graham

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Bill Gates

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The government has not been paying much attention to the constitution.

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.

What Kirk did may have been a surprise to some people, but it wasn't a surprise to me. A lot of people talk about how you can't do this or you can't do that, and I'll listen to it if it's coming from a football coach. If it's somebody in the media, I'm not going to pay a lot of attention to it.

We were surprised when this law was brought to our attention as a result of the lawsuit because it effectively gives a veto power over something clearly within the (jurisdiction) of the Zoning Board, ... We dont know where this law came from nor why it was put on the books, but we do know that it has not been enforced and we have a legal obligation to either enforce it or repeal it.

Carlisle Floyd

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

With Christmas coming up, we wanted to keep the public's attention on this case.

Richard Boucher

Without saying something particular about these ideas, I think we've always felt introducing other elements that divert attention from that focus don't really move the situation forward.

Without having a vote, we've sent a message of support of Israel, just by introducing it and the attention it got.

Norm Coleman

With the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina, we in Congress must use our economic growth in the country to now focus our attention on the Gulf Coast,

With the attention on Craig, if you move around you'll always get open shots.

We need to continually turn our attention to this issue because it's a tragedy.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

We will concentrate all of our energy, attention and resources on beginning to rebuild what has been damaged.

Bruce Gradkowski

When I went there it wasn't like I knew who came out of where, ... I wasn't into the draft stuff. I wasn't really paying attention to it. But now looking at it, it really is a league for quarterbacks. They keep coming out like Leftwich and Rotherlisberger and Frye. It's a QB league.

We believe that when someone is wrongfully incarcerated, the press can help draw public attention to it so it can at least be re-examined again.

We came in here unarmed. We've been in these situations before. I draw your attention back to those who are responsible for this violence and those who are responsible for controlling this violence, and they are not doing that.

We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.

We obviously have to pay more attention to the big plays on the outside. West Ashley's running game is more off tackle, outside, off the flanks.

We pay very close attention to statements made by the United States and they're very important to us.

Charles Lee

We pay special attention to people's best scorers a lot of the time and he's definitely their best scorer, their best threat on offense. We definitely respect him, so that's something we really focus on coming into today.

We pay no attention to it. We deserve to be here. The committee selected us. If you investigate our season, who we played, how we fared, what our resume is, we belong here.

Chris Quinn

We pay attention a little bit. I'm rooting for our Big East guys. For every game we keep winning there are less and less teams playing. The longer we can play, the better.