Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andie MacDowell

We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.

Dan O'Brien

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

Kailash Satyarthi

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Grace Slick

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

Chen Ning Yang

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Derrick Rose

Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

Diablo Cody

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it.

Tom Glavine

You do a little more homework. You pay attention (during Friday's game) a little more because you don't have a lot to go on. It's tough. Scouting reports help a little, but you don't know until you see them.

We don't have big numbers, but our quality is very, very good. They'll have to focus their attention (because all four will have to finish for St. Francis to post a team score), but they can't be thinking about making mistakes. They just have to ski the way they ski and get down the hill.

Byron Dorgan

We don't have a solution for Bismarck and Grand Forks, but we have the attention of the president of the company,

Holly Black

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'

We're not too concerned about (the polls) right now. We're second in the league, which is what I pay attention to.

We are really trying to link diamonds to tourism so we are really trying to create a lot of brand attention around the brands our factories are promoting.

We are pleased that Internet Security Systems is incorporating SCADA intelligence, related to tools we developed under a Department of Homeland Security research contract, into its overall offerings, ... Due to their inherent vulnerabilities, it is critical that special attention be placed on the security of SCADA protocols.

We are paying close attention to them. It's our business.

We are paying attention to this in the larger context of the gay-marriage debate. We see it as all one piece that is interconnected.

We are paying attention to the fundamentals right now. I've done this before for several other teams. It comes naturally.

You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

Gin Wigmore

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

Adam Smith

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

Abraham Clark

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

We've been working very hard, focusing everyone's attention on the F schools. We put a new focus on the school.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I want the attention, I love the attention.

Albert Einstein

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Albert Einstein

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

We definitely have to get better. We know we're not doing as good as we need to. We need to pay more attention to the little details. We're real close. It's just little things here or there, a guy taking a wrong step and missing a block or pre-snap stuff (leading to motion penalties). We need to correct some things. We're upset with how we've played and we need to get better.

We definitely had their attention in practice (yesterday). The last part of the year we've been ending practice at 4:30 p.m. and I left (yesterday) at quarter to six.

Kate Brown

We don't know who the family is. We have no interest in knowing. It's beside the point. It's a terrible tragedy. It's done now. We hope that if one decent thing comes out of this it's that someone else pays attention the next time around.

We don't just want the blue-haired old ladies as members of the museum. We want new, young people, younger than me, in their 20s, to pay attention to history.

We want to keep it small and simple with attention to detail.

Bob Arum

We believed (similar) fights had been wrongly marketed, to some extent. Urban audiences, African-American audiences weren't getting the attention they deserved.