Quotes About Attention

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

I can't say if I enjoy the attention or not. It's really exhausting. But every speech and every interview is extremely important to me because it could be my last one.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

Normal men aren't going to love anyone who looks forward to anything but them. And I couldn't help looking forward to being published.

It was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other than, "Well, I mean, she's pretty and everything..." That high gloss, which floored women, went right over men's heads. It was as though they had no receivers for her particular wavelength.

With great effort, she dragged her attention away from the book

Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hair-dos. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.

Virginia Woolf said that people read fiction the same way they listen to gossip, so if you're reading this at all then you might as well read my private asides written so he'll read it. I have to be extremely funny and wonderful around him just to get his attention at all and it's a shame to let it all go for one person.

Something is unfolding. It is both mystical and practical. It requires that we show up, do our exercise, and get out of the way. In order for the human race to continue, women must be safe and empowered. It's an obvious idea, but like a vagina, it needs great attention and love in order to be revealed.

She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Após a atenção mediática e as escoltas da Polícia, aquele isolamento e serenidade eram uma bênção. Pouco importava que não tomássemos banho há já uns dias. Para dizer a verdade, havia uma parte de rapazinho em mim que estava toda excitada com isso. Nunca me senti tão bem por estar todo sujo.

The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention — and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.

When the mind swings by a grass-blade an ant's forefoot shall save you

you sit tiller " said Kokka " if whenever you move something jangles.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

No buscar ningún destino, ni mucho menos un destino feliz (...) prestando atención a lo que se ENCUENTRA , y no a lo que se BUSCA

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.

i comb the crowd, and pick you out...my mouth moves too fast for you to figure it out..it starts eyes closed..to fingers crossed..to I swear I say..I swear i say..

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.