„People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.“
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
Quelle: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
„I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.“
An Outline of the System of the Elements
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Dmitri Iwanowitsch Mendelejew1
russischer Chemiker und Mitbegründer des Periodensystems de… 1834 - 1907Ähnliche Zitate
„When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.“
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 33.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, buch The Laughing Corpse
Anita
Quelle: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Laughing Corpse (1994)
— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964
Quelle: Mine Till Midnight
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
„I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.“
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
Quelle: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 183.
— Weston La Barre anthropologist 1911 - 1996
Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 261
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
„People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility.“
— Aisha Muhammad's wife 605 - 678
Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh.
„I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
Misattributed
— George Alec Effinger, buch When Gravity Fails
Quelle: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 168).
„At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me.“
— James Nicoll Canadian fiction reviewer 1961
Review of T. Kingfisher's Nine Goblins http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/basically-i-have-no-sense-of-humour, 2013
2010s
Kontext: At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling oddity of taste must have robbed me of hours of morally equivocal entertainment.
