Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Hirschorn

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

John Stevens

As with all investigations, I shall go where the evidence leads. Our quest won't be distracted or diverted and if there's evidence of wrongdoing, it will be highlighted.

Michelle Pfeiffer

They were distracted for a split-second, which was all it took for the other man to jump into the car.

Craig Newmark

During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.

J. Courtney Sullivan

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

Kristin Gore

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

Tobias Levkovich

There are early indications of a recovery if you're looking for them as opposed to being distracted by Senate hearings.

Granth Sahib

Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.

Scott Skiles

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

Bradley Horowitz

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Rocky Long

We struggled with Texas Tech's offense, and everybody has, because they spread you sideline to sideline. It's tough to defend.

John Adams

We still print out all our job tickets, even though it?s all online. Everybody needs print, from restaurants to the mechanic down the street.

Bob Hilmer

We're in position to be competitive for the next few years. But we know it won't be easy. We know we will be a target for everybody else.

Randy Perkins

We started off slow, but this is no one-man team. Everybody can do a little of everything.

Manny Diaz

We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we've come a long way and we're starting to play as a team. I'm very proud of them.

Larry Williams

We started off 0-4 and, for this team, it is just a matter of everybody stepping up their play to the level of the captains. I am still not pleased with the way we are playing. It is the small things, but this win shows that we can play with the best.

Terri Schrishuhn

We spread it around tonight and that's the way I like it. We tried to get everybody plenty of time.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

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Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Chris Bauer

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...

Leonard Edelstein

We were supposed to be ready to go in 48 hours, but it took a little longer.

Eric Munson

We'll see what happens. I'm just going to try to be ready when my name's in the lineup, and we'll see what happens.

Steven Gerrard

We are all ready for the second leg,

Charlie Sheen

I'm here and I'm ready. They're not. Bring it.

Jim Epperly

We're going to have to be ready to go.

David Brown

We're doing great. We're ready, we've got 100-percent deployment ready to go at about 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Joe Torre

We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.

Jeff Mathews

We're ready to make our point. We're ready to get it on and get it done.

Joe Torre

We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.