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Quotes About Attention

preety girls behave best when you ignore them
~ Chetan Bhagat
Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
~ Chetan Bhagat
pretty girls behave better when you ignore them.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Ignore girls and they can't leave you alone.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Kids are among the most bored people in temples.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Girls cannot stand being ignored, that too for a textbook.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Esse silêncio todo me atordoa Atordoado, eu permaneço atento
~ Chico Buarque
You just can't escape it. This country is full of people who want to make their noise and, worse, make you listen.
~ Terri Guillemets #hsp
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
~ Noël Coward, 1956
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
~ Raymond Chandler, 1946
The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Whenever the extracts from a living writer begin to multiply fast in the papers, without obvious reason, there is a new book or a new edition coming. The extracts are ground-bait.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Virgo: "You missed a spot."
~ Internet meme
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
~ James Harvey Robinson, c. 1930
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
~ Author Unknown
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.
~ Jason Love, jasonlove.com
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1759
If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.
~ Martin H. Fischer
An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.
~ S.A. Sachs
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks 'em.
~ Kin Hubbard
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
~ Author Unknown
No one is listening until you fart.
~ Author Unknown
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau