Quotes About Attention

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.