Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Stanton

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

Alice Rivlin

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Alice Sebold

The living deserve attention, too

Allen Weinstein

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Andy Andrews

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

Rachel Nichols

Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

Ruth Reichl

The fact that we're giving food this kind of attention means that it just gets bigger from here.

Kweisi Mfume

The fact that ... this situation exploded as a result of this young man being killed unarmed has called the nation's attention to this, ... But people here in Cincinnati have known that this has been a problem.

will probably do everything possible to make the best long-term decision, rather than just pay attention to the vicissitudes of the moment. Thirty years from now, you might still have the (new) justice making decisions.

Mark Emmert

will keep compliance issues on the front burner permanently so that we don't pay attention to compliance issues just when there is a problem.

We'll continue to call attention to this issue in a variety of ways.

When it comes to our attention that the handler and dog make one sweep and stand for hours at a time, that is unacceptable to us.

When it reaches the point where two people can't walk through the same door, then it can't continue, because it distracts attention from our true business.

We drew his attention to the matter that the implementation of Supreme Court's order is an infringement of our fundamental right to live peacefully.

Harold Evans

We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.

What is a solution today might not be a solution tomorrow, but you need to start paying close attention to it.

Arlen Specter

What I'm referring to are all of the forces which are at work out here commanding media attention and commanding public attention, ... There's been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard.

Cindy Sheehan

What I hope to do with it would be to energize other anti-war candidates. If I entered it, it would bring attention to the fact that there are many, many races where pro-peace, anti-war candidates are running.

Trent Lott

We've got to pay attention to the fact that morale is down, we are losing ground in readiness and on pay and pensions we are shortchanging them and they are getting out.

With market attention firmly focused on the forthcoming OPEC meeting, we expect oil prices will remain well supported given recent statements from member countries indicating a desire to curtail physical supply.

We take a lot of pride in what we do. Most fans don't pay attention to what we do, but there's a lot of hidden yardage as far as coverage units. People say you have to be a little crazy, a little off to play special teams anyways. We have 11 guys that are crazy.

Paul Deacon

We suspect that the company could now come under closer attention of the private equity groups.

We think a greater public free float will be beneficial to the share price and it is a limitation. There is no fixed view at this stage about the Crown's reaction to that. But it is something we will be exploring with the Crown as to whether there is value for them and all shareholders in paying some attention to the free float,

We are for a comprehensive solution to the immigration process. There was talk of a lot of little things on Monday. We decided to have a larger one which we hope will catch the attention of elected officials, especially the state and federal officials.

To complement our Best Buy stores over the course of two or three years, the company didn't really market the site, ... It was trying to pay attention to the world around it -- find out what might be possible with the Web site.

Bruce Fein

What you find is that the U.S. Supreme Court very seldom if ever marches very far from the conventional thinking of contemporary society. They pay attention and are infected by mainstream thinking of what's moral and what's right and what's just.

What we were doing is really injury prevention and very close attention to how the training is done. I would pick up on having their tendencies to, for example, use one hip more than the other or having a misalignment of one hip or leg.

David Bennett

What we have is fairly compelling and worth paying attention to now. Don't wait till you're 80.

Emraan Hashmi

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Eric Schlosser

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax system on fuel in this country.

John McCarthy

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Jan Egeland

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.