Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Law

New drivers need to have their full attention on the road and this is one major distraction that we in the Legislature can limit,

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's occurred to people. Especially people who commute from the suburbs, they may not have been paying close attention to the smoking ban and they may not realize.

Claude Julien

I don't think it's necessary to bring attention to that. We're kind of sensitive to the issue and understand that maybe it's going to take him a little time to feel comfortable, but we're OK with that.

Joseph Cohen

Global investor attention has recently focused on three nations: Russia, Brazil and Venezuela. The direct economic consequences for the United States are quite small,

Al Roker

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

Steve Smith

I get out of bounds and when I'm getting up, somebody pushed me back down. I grabbed the ref to get his attention to say, 'Hey, did you see that?' You are not supposed to touch the ref. I understand that. I wasn't doing it to put him down or anything like that. I put my hand on his back. It was a gesture.

Mick Staton

If Yadkin County is competing for attention with Winston-Salem, certainly it is not inconceivable that its voice could be lost.

Jon Banner

If we all knew what device was going to be the most effective way of getting content five years from now, we could retire. Everybody is competing to get the attention of people and get them to use their device to get content.

Bill Saunders

If the administration doesn't pay attention to this, they will lose support. Americans are getting killed; billions are being spent. And even when we design the constitution it doesn't protect religious freedom.

Bobby Clarke

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

John Shuster

Now people see that competitive curling of a high caliber is athletic, not just beer parties. It takes mental and physical strength.

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Colby Armstrong

Fleury definitely gave us a chance to win the game. He made a lot of big saves.

Jeremie Cook

Brett watched him and said I shouldn't have too much trouble. I like the quarterfinals in the morning and the semifinals at night. It gives me a chance to relax and hang out with my friends. I'm a senior, so this is the last time.

Craig Smith

Brooke looked very good. It was the first meet and she and the others had a chance to get the butterflies out.

Tony Wilson

Even though we got down, I felt that we were seeing their pitcher really good and if our kids were patient, that we would have a good chance to get back in it. And we did.

Donald Trump

Between your daughter, with her one-word statements, your letter writing and, most importantly, your totally unconvincing demeanor, it never had a chance -- much as your daytime show is not exactly setting records.

Alex Morrison

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Billy Beane

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

LaVar Arrington

I looked forward to the focus on me being turned back on football.

Hedi Slimane

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Frederick the Great

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Greg Long

The focus is on practical life and work. Survival skills.

Ned Riley

The focus point of the market this week is going to be tomorrow. If anything, I'm hoping for neutrality out of the Fed.

Chris Grinde

The focus needs to be on who we are playing and not what it is for.

Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

Epictetus

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Kim Thompson

It's hard to keep your focus for six hours. We lose a lot of shots when we forget to focus on every single one.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Ellen DeGeneres

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Hayley Williams

For me growing up, I've found that I don't really go out and party and I don't hang out - when I come home and I'm home, I'm a pretty chilled person.

Hilary Duff

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Harlan Coben

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

Hamdi Ulukaya

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.