Famous Quotes & Sayings

Encountering a man in 19th century clothing a pipe, he didn't talk, no smoke was coming from his pipe, but he quietly acknowledged the people. The people then brought that to our attention of a staff person on the main deck, and no, there wouldn't be somebody down there at that point.

Jose Serrano

Elian's legacy is, in part, the fact that he brought attention through his tragedy to the relationship with Cuba, ... That door has been opened, and that's the good news. And through the door we plan to push a lot of other issues.

Lord Chesterfield

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.

Early in the season we were paying attention to that stuff and we got sidetracked, ... It's the second week of September and we control our own destiny. ... Inning by inning, pitch by pitch, take care of business.

Stephen Kinzer

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Kweisi Mfume

first step towards racial reconciliation. It calls our attention to the need to be eternally vigilant.

Florida is sticking out, and it attracts the attention of celebrities. I would be surprised if in Florida the legislators don't repeal the law.

Florida is sticking out, and it attracts the attention of celebrities,

First Midwest is very hands-on. They want to be intimately involved, and the capital improvements and attention to customer service is a welcome change. I know it's going to bring up the level of expectations for my staff as well. I'm looking forward to it.

Feltham is undoubtedly a different establishment from the one that attracted so much attention and criticism in the past.

Trent Edwards

There's so much more energy, ... There's so much more life. You get more attention from friends and relatives, from people on the street. That's why I came to Stanford: For the chance to be proud of what we're doing here and where we're going.

Jeff Jones

Some people talked about me reaching a thousand during the week, but I don't pay much attention to stats. I let my parents do that.

Jane Lindskold

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

Burton Richter

Science is particularly needed to bring the attention of government policy-makers to problems that they don't know about yet.

Ryan is an excellent candidate and he's going to draw a lot of attention to this race. I think it's one he can win.

Safe workers are productive workers, better ensuring system reliability. Safety practices include not only attention to the personal safety of employees, but attention to the safe operation of the system. One of our primary goals is customer service excellence. Keeping employees safe and keeping our system safe enhance the service experience for our customers.

Right now they're the team to beat. We're picked first in the conference and the rankings are just a big bulls-eye. It gets everybody's attention and helps motivate the teams we're playing. We've got to show up too.

Right now, the players understand that we have to defend and rebound to stay in the game. It's not like we have to go through a major overhaul. We just have to pay a little more attention to detail and take pride in hitting the boards.

Geoff Mulgan

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

Jim Jordan

Presidential campaigns have an awful lot to do with a sense of authenticity, and Romney's image seems to be, 'Pay no attention to anything I've previously said in my political life. I was only lying and pandering then.'

(Sarah) just being out there on the field and taking attention away from everyone else opens things up.

Say what you will about small town schools, ... but they give more individual attention and have smaller class size.

Publicity doesn't have to be perfect all the time. It draws attention to the sport the good, the bad and the ugly. A prime example is Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. There was nothing beautiful about that. But the attention on figure skating, there'll never be attention like it again.

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions.

Real estate financing is making up a bigger and bigger share of the country's financial sector . The health of real estate financing is of critical importance to the health of the financial sector. We must pay close attention to developments in both the real estate industry and home financing sectors.

Mark Gottfried

Randolph Morris was a factor from the tip. You could tell from the first minute that he wanted to make a difference, and he did. He causes you problems while he's on the floor, and you have to pay attention to him.

Promises, promise, promises. These promises we have all heard before... Nobody pays much attention to them.

Katsuya Okada

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.

Personal attention is most important. When you introduce a new concept ... there are students who don't understand the concept and need extra work.

Michael Wallace

People who invest in these companies should not pay attention to quarter-to-quarter numbers, ... They should look at the yearly numbers. You need to take a long term approach.

John Ashcroft

People who interfere with the exercise of constitutionally protected rights should be the focus of attention by prosecutorial authorities,

People, up to now, haven't been paying attention to water. It hasn't been a big issue for a while.

Billy Gillispie

People thought P.J. didn't play all that well at our place, but he's where all your attention always goes (defensively). I wish it was not at our expense, but I'm really happy to see a guy bounce back after what happened at the end of that game. I guess I'm not that happy. But I was glad for him.