Arresting Attention Quotes

#1. I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

Black Francis

#2. The tunnels shrieked with the wind, each one with its own febrile pitch, creating a fierce chorus.

Steven Erikson

#3. It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

Thom Yorke

#4. Today is all we have, my dears. Today is all we ever have.

Carrie Anne Noble

#5. Geniuses are their own saviors.

Anthony O'Neill

#6. When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

Megan Hilty

#7. The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Andre Gide

#8. I find what's pure and clean and see that it gets all mucked up. But that's what people call information. And when you dredge up every bit of dirt from every corner of the living environment, that's what you call enhanced information.

Haruki Murakami

#9. It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

Jim Parsons

#10. A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Chris Van Allsburg