Quotes About Attention

Uyku t?pk? bir kedi gibi. Sadece onu görmezden geldiÄŸinde yan?na yakla??yor.

No wedding ring. I wondered when I began to notice such things.

Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.

We Got Llamas!" Odd words to see in neon.

I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

She was the kind of person who'd read street signs aloud rather than suffer silence.

When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.

Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.

I have a dash of ADD, and I've always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.

Je suis un peu trop, et il n'est pas tout à fait assez. Je suis un buisson d'épines, hérissée par l'excès d'attention de mes parents, et il est transpercé d'un million de petits coups de poignards paternels. Mes épines logent parfaitement dans ses cicatrices.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it's not going to get you respect.

I snuck a glance at her. She wore a teasing little smile. I shifted my attention to the fighting. What she did to me, just sitting there, amidst the fury of the end of the world, was more frightening than the prospect of a death in battle. I am too old to boil like a horny fifteen-year-old.

But she noticed that some of the people who had spoken to her before made a point of having something else to do with their eyes when she passed, although she could almost feel them staring at her back as she moved on.

Eventually, the sound of me slapping myself in the face to stay alert disturbs Malik and we switch spots.

about an hour, Malik watching through the sunroof, following every move the chopper makes overhead. "It's

Incidentally, what most often interrupts my own prayers is not great distractions but tiny ones—things one will have to do or avoid in the course of the next hour.4

Jesus was aware of where true importance lies, where the priorities are. And where your priorities are, there your time will be.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

atento a los latidos de su corazón «como si intentaran transmitirle un mensaje, un aviso, en un código que no podía entender».

He never listened while his wife talked.

Those TV pictures had looked like scenes from hell. Flames leaping up into the night. Even so, cattle aren't people. Just a few months later Jack had turned on the telly once again and called to Ellie to come and look, as people must have been calling out, all over the world, to whoever was in the next room, 'Drop what you're doing and come and look at this.

I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave