Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Rubin

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

Sophia Myles

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

Tony Campolo

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

Toby Jones

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

T Bone Burnett

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Tom Robbins

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Steve Albini

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

Shawn Johnson

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Seth Godin

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Ted Jones

Deep Run is the best team I've seen with the exception of Dale.

Juli Inkster

Deep down, Beth and I know we didn't play our best golf today, ... Half a point, we're not happy with it, but it's better than no points.

Ed Burnsed

Deedee swam her best time ever and reset her own school record by about a second. I want her to place as high as possible at state. I'd like to see her go under 2:10, which is a major milestone for a female high school swimmer.

Mike Davis

Dee Brown is one of the best players in our league. He's going to come in and try to carry them by himself. He did that in the Michigan State game.

Al Peacock

Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognition for what she's capable of doing.

Neal Wolkoff

Deals are time-consuming, and they are difficult. It doesn't mean that they necessarily don't work out. It just means that the best day you have is the day you make the announcement.

Kevin McCabe

Day-in, day-out it's still a learning process, especially as quarterbacks, because we haven't had much game experience. We're just trying to do the best we can with the reps we are getting.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Ken Mertz

The original impetus was that these companies got contracts to work on Y2K. The good companies were able to transform themselves to provide services in the Internet area.

Michael Tieu

There is no real solution to stop identity theft immediately but the big tech trend is to focus on requiring stronger forms of authentication. And that's where security companies come into play,

Kevin Caron

We've held out that, as you move through the third-quarter earnings, the companies that report will show strong growth, ... Stock prices have been so compressed that it give investors reason to step in and pick up stocks at depressed prices.

James Preissler

Two companies have benefited from the time-to-market advantage: Yahoo! and Amazon. Those are the single success stories. Every single day, it gets more and more competitive.

Amanda Davis

This week, we were supposed to be ordering her graduation announcements and sending her resume to companies in Houston and L.A.. I told her Friday night that she didn't know what path God wanted her to walk and that perhaps she should expand her job search past New York.

Rick Billy

We expect the sum of the two companies to be worth meaningfully more than the current price.

Bruce Lanni

We don't think oil prices are going to rebound sharply. I think the deal that Mobil's doing is suggesting just that. I think most companies are hunkering down and they expect that prices are going to remain low for the next possibly one to three years. In this event, you may start to see more mergers occur.

Sam Stovall

We think investors should own companies like Wal-Mart, like Alberto-Culver and Neighbors Industries because they have good fundamental prospects in a recovering economy,

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Erik Morales

I would like the Mexican to win, ... Its not because I dont want to fight Pacquiao again. Its just that I am Mexican like Velazquez, so I like to see him win.

Dan Gelber

It didn't resolve anything. It really was just a big food fight between powerful special interests.

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Gina Carano

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

Fred Hampton

Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but were going to fight it with socialism.

Julia Cameron

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

Mary J. Blige

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

Margery Allingham

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

Paul Ryan

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Milton Friedman

Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in discounts, service, and quality, and wage changes, in overtime, perquisites and so on…. But to whatever extent the freeze is enforced, it will do harm by distorting relative prices.

Milton Friedman

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

Muhammad

Be persistent in good actions.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Frank Murkowski

If you tinker with it you so do, as I've indicated a long time ago, at your peril.

Adanma Ekeledo

We were just trying some things out. You never know when you'll need it.

Richard Kovalcheck

We were just being aggressive. We were trying to get a big play right off the bat.

Robert Benton

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Robert Bly

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Suzanne Shaw

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Robert Altman

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Robert Altman

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.