Dying For Attention Quotes

#1. At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

Philip Neri

#2. They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

#3. If people thought you were dying they gave you their full attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Richard Neal

#5. The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

William Shakespeare

#6. Shopping turns me off.

Tea Leoni

#7. I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

Harold Ramis

#8. With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

Lawrence Korb

#9. Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

Carsten Jensen

#10. It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

George Mikes

#11. And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. Not a physical presence, but an idea, something beyond man's ability to comprehend, something larger.

Michael Punke

#12. My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve- (174)

Emily Dickinson

#13. I loved horses and horse books as a child.

Meg Rosoff

#14. It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

John Calvin

#15. Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Marge Piercy

#16. Your body's dying...pay no attention

Anne Rice

#17. We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in-formation.

Jeremy Rifkin

#18. My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

Anne Lamott