Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Johnson

I think he's trying to shock people and get their attention and get people like me to write, 'Oh, the horror and outrage,' which you hate too do, because you're playing into his hands. But you have to do it, because there is horror and outrage, you know?

Caroline Kennedy

I think he did expand the number of people who were paying attention, and to pay attention in a different way.

I think he brings a little something different than the guys we will have as seniors. He's a little smaller, but he catches the ball out of the backfield so well. Obviously, he had a lot of attention and we wanted him.

Larry Sabato

It demonstrated to the public for the first time that Bush no longer controls his own party in Congress. That's a mark of leadership that people do pay attention to.

Timothy Simons

I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.

Johnny Weir

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

I thought it seemed like every team had one or two pretty good players that you had to focus your defense on. You certainly had to pay attention to those guys or your chances of winning were slim.

Mike Leach

I thought he was pretty good. We contained him for a period of time but he is very explosive and can go off at any given moment. He is a great player and he commands as much attention as any player in the conference.

I think they're going to pay attention to it, but it's not the final word.

Julius Baer's business model is very similar to that of the three private banks and GAM. The sale of the complete unit pays special attention to the preservation of continuity between clients and their advisers creating value for all parties.

Just because the news media gives disproportionate attention to one crime over others does not mean the police do the same.

I'm so happy everyone paid attention in the huddle. We had a secondary option, which was Melissa, and, fortunately, she hit the pull-up jump shot.

I'm struck by how this case involves impropriety with contractors and that means we need to pay special attention to it,

I have found that a person is not a failure due to lack of opportunity, but because of failing to focus attention and resources on the opportunity at hand.

I didn't really pay much attention to it. I liked him. I thought he was a nice kid; he was unusually nice. But we weren't tight.

I don't keep track of our stats, so I don't even know who our leading scorer is. I honestly pay more attention to our opponents' stats.

Phil Jackson

I didn't want to create an impediment in that situation. I wanted him to be productive. But it didn't seem to be working in that direction. I think more attention was better than less.

I didn't pay too much attention to the table when we were at the top and I'm not now either. There's no point in thinking, 'if we beat them and they lose to them,' we just need to win some games for ourselves and whatever else happens will happen.

I didn't pay too much attention to Auburn. It was always 'Roll Tide' at my house. Auburn was the only school in the state that didn't recruit me and they were the closest to my high school.

I didn't pay attention to time. That's my error. I put it on my shoulders.

I didn't pay attention to the call. I was too focused on the game. ... I did come back and make some plays to make up for that.

Daunte Culpepper

I didn't like the way we weren't paying attention to detail at the end of the game like I know we can and I know we should.

Rivers Cuomo

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

Martha Stewart

I did not want the media attention currently surrounding me to distract from the important work of the NYSE, and thus I felt it was appropriate to resign,

I don't expect people to pay undying attention ... all the time. But if today is a day when the threat is higher, that's do-able. Then you start to put extra effort into finding out what's going on.

Josh Howard

I don't even pay attention to that any more. We're just going into the playoffs trying to get ourselves better. We want to keep playing great basketball like we've been doing and hopefully end up playing in June.

Lamar Alexander

I'd like to schedule my media attention on the day after the Iowa caucuses. He should enjoy the attention while it lasts.

I don't know that O.J. would want to draw that type of attention to himself.

I don't know what it is. I think we have to really focus a lot more and everyone has to pay attention to detail and really kind of buckle down and make sure we do everything.

Tommy Amaker

I don't know what has transpired the last few games - the way he has shot the basketball, he's not shooting as well. I don't know if it's more attention being focused on him with those other guys being out that's wearing on him. I don't know, but we have to rectify it.

I don't know when people's attention spans went where driving 15 minutes to Henrietta or Greece to shop is considered a long way. I don't want them to make another Ridge Road (in Greece) out of Chili Avenue.

Larry Foote

I don't care if he is the fifth all-time leading rusher of the NFL ... No, seriously, 'Bus' deserves all the attention he's getting. He's one of my heroes, and for him to come home and play what may be his final game, that's really special.

Bill Belichick

I don't care what happened last week, last year, last month, what the overall record between the two teams was going back to 1947 or whenever they started playing each other, or who wins when the wind is blowing in from the north. I pay attention to what the matchups are for each individual game.