Quotes About Attention

If he could not get the High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad.

I wrench my mouth free and scream, but screams in Faerie are like bird-song, too common to attract much attention.

Though Charlie didn't do great in school and had been long ago sorted into the group of kids who were never going to college, she read a lot and she paid attention. She was smart.

It's too easy. I'm hungry for kindness. Hungry for attention. I want and want and want.

I recall that your hands were on her but her eyes were on me.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

There is still a way to harmonize all interests," said Solonet, uttering this sentence in a high falsetto tone, which silenced the other three and drew their eyes and their attention upon himself. This young man was not unlike a skilful coachman who holds the reins of four horses, and amuses himself by first exciting his animals and then subduing them.

Ne pas écouter est non seulement un manque de politesse, mais encore une marque de mépris. Rien ne rapporte plus dans le commerce du monde que l'aumône de l'attention. À bon entendeur salut !

Once, when Nick, Alice, and Elisabeth went away for a weekend together, Elisabeth spent ages at the breakfast table studying the "nutritional information" panel on the side of a container of yogurt, warning them darkly, "You have to be really careful with yogurt." Whenever Nick and Alice ate yogurt after that, one of them would always shout, "Careful!

Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices.

Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.

She'd never wanted his gratitude, just his acknowledgment. Just once.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.

Cecilia had noticed that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

It's starting, Cecilia had thought sadly. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes...

And on she went about the room, serving food and compliments, fixing every guest with that strange piercing gaze of hers, so that by the time she finished and was ready to do her demonstration, everyone obediently swung their knees in her direction, their faces attentive, ready to be sold Tupperware, as if a firm but fair teacher had taken control of a rowdy classroom.

just irrelevant background noise to him? Or did he not care enough even to wonder?

The teenagers glanced up briefly from their phones and then instantly dropped their heads again as if there were magnets on their foreheads.