Famous Quotes & Sayings

Unlike cities like Paris and New York, San Francisco has not paid attention enough to the great architectural accomplishments of its time. This is the first great statement.

Joe Francis

We get bored. Our attention span is slim.

Paul Young

We aren't paying attention to their loss of form. We know that they are a good team, and while they are going through a rough patch right now they can bounce back at any time.

We need to keep him off the glass number one. He's stepping away from the basket and making jump shots, so we have to pay attention to that detail. When he does post up, he's got some pretty good inside moves as well.

Kwame Brown

We have watched a lot of film. When I was coming off the bench, other teams were not paying attention to me and now they are still not trying to play me. I think Kobe and Lamar are doing a great job passing the ball to me when I have a guy sealed.

Li Zhaoxing

We have to work hard and not pay attention to those people who talk about this or that, upsetting our sense of self, especially when it comes to our love of the motherland.

Sebastian Stan

You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Marlon Wayans

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Martha Beck

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

Michael Arrington

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

Patrick Ness

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

We have the same sense of humor as the Western studios, and we pay attention to detail like the Japanese.

We have them identified, and one of them we're paying very close attention to. We're in contact with the registered owner of the car. We'd like to get all the forensic evidence before we go hooking people up.

We had a lot of guts, heart and passion. We were in extreme foul trouble. We went back-and-forth the whole game. We paid attention to detail and did the little things to win.

We wanted to grab the attention of the new young drivers. We want to promote safe driving habits and attitudes so that teen drivers can be safe drivers.

We've gotten the attention of the public and the state and federal lawmakers. Now it's their responsibility to act.

We have to pay extra attention at this point, as we move forward, too make sure that we are providing good value to the taxpayers who actually fund all of these vehicles and pay for all the gas that we use,

Frank Robinson

We have to pay attention to details right now, and hopefully we can keep going, ... I just think they had to get down to business. They had to pay attention to the game itself and not all this side stuff and the stuff out on the street. They have to focus on playing baseball. That was my view of it. And I think they are starting to get that feel.

We're working to provide meals, to get medical attention for those who need it, help these people take the first steps they need to take.

Jimmy Wales

We're very pleased with the results and we're hoping it will focus people's attention on the overall level of our work, which is pretty good.

Using such high profile mayors will bring more attention to this issue at the national level.

Users should exercise caution when reading their e-mail for the next few days and bring unusual messages to the attention of their system administrator.

With the exception of you guys (in the media), it's a regular game. The only difference is the media attention around it.

With the exception of Christmas Day, when so many consumers turn their attention from gift shopping to gift giving, our data reported sales over $100 million dollars in each day of this latest week.

Adam Cole

With the election out of the way, the attention is now on the Bank of Canada. We're still at the early stages of a hiking cycle, which is moderately supportive of the Canadian dollar.

With the Department of Justice process out of the limelight now, investor attention has been squarely focused on Microsoft's business fundamentals over the past several months. During that time there has been a significant degree of doubt about Microsoft's long-term prospects and, more pointedly, about the success of Windows 2000 and the Internet. We think this quarter's results go at least part of the way to alleviating these concerns.

Bob Stoops

With the success of our program and the media attention we have received, we feel we can attract players from all over the country.

We've done all the research and booked with the best tour operators. We take care of all the details with attention paid to the quality and safety of each excursion so that our guests can spend their day enjoying themselves.

Paul Giamatti

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

Pat Barker

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Patricia Richardson

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.