He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while.… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command… — Daniel Hack Tuke Copy Share Image
Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If I have a voice to shine light on things or draw attention or provoke, as an artist people look to -… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you. — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'll wear a crop top if I'm not loving my stomach because it kind of forces me to pay attention to it… — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
“If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't hate attention. I don't embrace it or like it a whole lot. — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling… — Missy Franklin Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
When you're in there getting buckets, you're not really paying attention to who's there. You're just doing your thing. — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I… — Kieran Culkin Copy Share Image
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested. — Steph Houghton Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things. — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image