The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
~By Matthew Perry ~
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
~By Frank Langella ~
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
~By Charles Simmons ~
I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
~By Chris Noth ~
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
~By John Rowland ~
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
~By Wally Lamb ~
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
~By Dave Eggers ~
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
~By Robert Fripp ~
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
~By Robert Quillen ~
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
~By Edward de Bono ~
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
~By Robert Hall ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
~By Susan Sontag ~
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
~By Janet Suzman ~
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
~By Gong Li ~
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
~By Richard Owen ~
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
~By Karl Kraus ~
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
~By Jane Austen ~
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
~By Paul Nurse ~
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
~By Brad Bird ~
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~By John Hench ~
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
~By Albert Finney ~
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.
~By Ron Davies ~
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
~By James Taylor ~
I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
~By Donna Summer ~
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
~By John W. Thompson ~
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
~By Warren Zevon ~
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
~By Arthur Miller ~
It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
~By Alan Watts ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.
~By Brandy Norwood ~
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
~By David O. Selznick ~
What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.
~By Graham Nelson ~
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
~By John Hawley ~
I think the killers get far too much attention.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
~By Robert Peel ~
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
~By David Ogilvy ~
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
~By Gene Simmons ~
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
~By Ben Harper ~
I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.
~By Freddy Adu ~
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.
~By Lee Haney ~
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
~By Storm Jameson ~
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~By Marc Anthony ~
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
~By Neil Young ~
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
~By Andrew Gould ~
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
~By Tom Allen ~
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
~By Plato ~
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
~By Emily Mortimer ~
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
~By Robert Crippen ~
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
~By Natasha Hamilton ~
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
~By Judy Garland ~
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
~By Andy Warhol ~
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
~By Bruce Johnston ~
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
~By Barney Frank ~
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