Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sexuality is like any other activity. There are people for whom skydiving, chocolate cake and soccer are their world. But some people don't like skydiving, chocolate cake or soccer. There's no reason to focus your energy and attention on something you feel no reason to do anything about.

Shower attention on a customer who owns a car with eighty thousand miles on it because he or she is much closer to a new car purchase.

Deepak Chopra

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Since 9/11, the driving force of this economy has been real estate. When you have this strong of a force, it grabs the attention of the world.

She had a flair for doing things in a very elegant way. At the same time, you felt like you were right there in her living room. She paid attention to people so that she was seeing to it everyone's little needs and egos were met.

Anne Edwards

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

Sherwood Boehlert

Sixteen Hundred Pennsylvania Avenue should follow the example of Ten Downing Street, and focus national attention on this.

Since (Interstate 95) is farther away from us, not a lot of attention was given to us (by developers). Not many modern buildings were put up.

Steven Greenberg

Since her favorable rating is the same and her unfavorable rating went up 8 points, it's clear the attention she has received over last two months has not helped her at all.

She is just thorough. She can shoot from the left side, she is a big girl and she tried to post me up and you have to pay attention to that situation. She got a lot of opportunities and converted.

She requires the defense's attention so they have to close in on her. That allows us to get a lot more open shots.

She received immediate medical attention at the site and is now proceeding with her schedule as planned.

She knows she's drawing the most attention ... But it's not going to change her game.

She just happened to be sitting in front of me (in church) a few times. I noticed that the hair on her head looked so pretty, and I called her attention to it. That's how it started things off.

Most voters focus their attention on candidates they believe have a reasonable chance of becoming president. They want to think that their vote counts.

Most people need to prioritize sleep. There's just too much in our society that distracts our attention elsewhere.

Mike is just trying to bring focus to it, attention to it. We have to play within the rules.

Haley Barbour

Mississippi Rising is going to be a tremendous boost not just in providing desperately needed funds for our recovery effort, but also in bringing national attention to our efforts as we transition from emergency relief to rebuilding Mississippi stronger, bigger and better.

Zhang Jun

Mr Lindesay has a unique power to direct public attention on Great Wall protection. But what we do is what we really feel from the heart and what we can fulfil. The results can be immediately seen.

We have information that shows that the person was on there long enough that they lived, suffered and they were not given medical attention and that it would have made a difference if they were.

We have had three really good meetings and we are still visiting. There will be an announcement next week. That was at my request because I want this recruiting class to get all of the attention it deserves.

We're hitting shots and we're getting our confidence back. We just have to be able to pay attention to the little details. The last game and a half, that's what we've been doing minimizing our mistakes and making good shot selections.

We're going to zero in on some changes (on special teams). That needs to have some attention put to it, but I think it's something that we can fix. We should have done a better job. We have a lot of options. If it means that we've got to play more starting players (on special teams), then we've got to do it.

Phil Angelides

This proposition is designed to make it difficult for young women to get the medical attention they need at a very difficult time,

This project is fantastic, ... It's going to capture the attention of all of college football.

Barbara Stanwyck

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Grace Meng

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help bring more attention to what we need, and what the federal government needs to do to improve the quality of life of people right here in Queens - any way that I can do that, I'm very happy to do that.

We thought we could spin the news story of a Gregorian chant hit in Europe into something that would catch the attention of the media here, ... We put a big bet on the roulette table. We spent a great deal of money in buying some TV advertising. So, we got the message out there that this thing existed and our distribution company was right there with us and we got the initial distribution.

We really got their attention tonight at halftime. We knew going into the game that they (UTA) was a good rebounding team. Early in the game, we were not getting out and contesting shots and they responded by shooting 62 percent.

Karl Hobbs

We're a different team with Pops in the lineup. He creates so much attention just being on the floor.

We didn't win as early as we should have last year. But this year, everybody's doing a good job, is focused on the little things we need to pay attention to, and hopefully we can carry this momentum through the end of the year.

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

Shane Carruth

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.