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Quotes About Attention

Give me attention. Flash. Give me beauty. Flash. Give me peace and happiness, a loving relationship, and a perfect home. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And sometimes being mutilated can work to your advantage. All those people now with piercings and tattoos and brandings and scarification... What I mean is, attention is attention.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hysteria is impossible without an audience.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Evie says that beautiful people should never date each other. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together. You can feel this, Evie says. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me pity. Flash. Give me empathy. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The way to make most women break eye contact is to run your tongue around your lips. The ones who dont look away, for serious, bingo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
THIS IS WHY I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If people thought you were dying they gave you their full attention.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This, and the club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the center of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Cuando la gente cree que te estás muriendo es cuando en verdad te escuchan, en lugar de estar esperando su turno para hablar
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you... You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're the culture that cried wolf. These
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're the culture that cried wolf.
~ Chuck Palahniuk