Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Rubin

I guess edgy things tend to get my 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 Wesley

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Bill Burr

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

John Entwistle

It is great to be back in a four piece band where there are a whole bunch of holes to fill and I do it. It is exactly what I want.

Max Starks

I'm not going to say he's a marked man. But after the game, we'll be looking for him to see if he's going to direct the band again.

Ken Cooper

I'm expecting something like 10,000 in sales in the first 14-day period, and that's what (Universal) is expecting. Once we put up 10,000 units on the board, we'll get on a national tour. Come January, you have the band more than 100,000 (in sales) and on its way to gold. Come June you're on tour with another up-and-comer and approaching platinum.

Jim Diamond

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.

Doris Wallace

I just will be glad to have a band here playing music that night.

Danny Stevens

I joined about a year ago. Before the band signed to Victory Records they played Detroit, where we became good friends. So when the situation came up, they called me up to join the band.

D. James

I just called my band members and they're driving over from Miami.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Kevin Schieffer

I just read the decision, and it is positive. We are very pleased with the outcome and glad that is done. It has been five days short of eight years. We filed for a permit Feb. 20, 1998.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

Wayne Lee

I paid $2.90 last week and now I paid $3.22. This is ridiculous, in seven days or less. Unfortunately, you got to get to work and you got to do what you got to do. You've got to pay the price right now.

Jerry Glanville

I had 150 days to prepare for them. What worked? Not much.

Ghada Jamsheer

I received this letter, which was hand-delivered, four days ago and it said that the seven judges who signed this letter are no longer involved in my cases,

Kate Christensen

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Kevin Bardsley

I remember days I would wake up saying, 'Today's the day we're going to find him,'

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Rob Judson

Senior day is really a special day. I could tell at our morning shoot-around that these guys were really focused. Everyone went out there and made sure that NIU would get the win.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Marianne Williamson

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Lindy Ruff

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

Peter Falk

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

John C. Calhoun

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

Miyamoto Musashi

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Sheldon Adelson

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Shaquille O'Neal

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

Kurt Schwitters

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

Shannen Doherty

Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it - that's completely false.

Leonard Cohen

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Linus Torvalds

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

Lindsey Graham

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Leah Busque

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

Suzanne Isidor

We are really ready. We are ready to play with something on the line.