Quotes About Attention

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'

There's no real hiding from fame.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

And my mistakes are always the highlights on ESPN's 'SportsCenter.'

People want to see me for at least two hours uninterrupted in a Hindi film.

in order to feel, it is necessary that the mind should rest upon the matter, whatever it is.

Thy very ATTENTION, does it not mean an attentio, a STRETCHING-TO? Fancy that act of the mind, which all were conscious of, which none had yet named,—when this new poet first felt bound and driven to name it.

True business can never be left in any shop. It is a care, white or black, that sits behind every horseman.

When she went to church, nothing received her, nothing came near her, nothing brought her any message. Something was done, she supposed, that ought to be done—something she had no inclination to dispute, no interest in questioning; a certain good power called God, required from people, in return for the gift of existence, the attention of going to church; therefore she went sometimes.

the idyll was marred by the appearance round the southern headland of a small, waspish-looking vessel, standing slowly out on a course parallel to our own. It happened that I saw her first, and drew my commander's attention to her with a sailor-like hail of: "Jesus! Look at that!" Spring

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.

If one has once read Shakespeare with attention, it is not easy to go a day without quoting him, because there are not many subjects of major importance that he does not discuss or at least mention somewhere or another, in his unsystematic but illuminating way.

En este país la cobardía intelectual es el peor enemigo al que tiene que enfrentarse un escritor o periodista, y ese hecho no parece haber recibido la atención que merece.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only

If they ever get around to building The Short Story Museum, I think they'd better carve this over the doorway: 'A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.

NONFICTION The Braindead Megaphone Congratulations

It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike.

Of Congress, party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire...are but secondary considerations, that business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.

Ce sont les échecs de la vie qui attirent, qui ont attiré l'attention sur la vie. Toute connaissance a sa source dans la réflexion sur un échec de la vie.

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.