Jack Sparrow: [to Will Turner] Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention.
When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.
Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.
Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.
We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.
It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short.
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
Most people like short prayers and long sausages.
Good company on the road is the shortest of short cuts.
Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may; Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet...
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scri...
[Indy and Short Round are trapped in a room] Indiana Jones: Stop! Look, just - stand against the wall, will ya? [Short Round stands against the wall, springing a trap] Short Round: You say to stand against the wall! I listen to what you say! Not my f...
Jayden: Please don't be offended if I'm not very friendly, but I'm going to be living with my dad soon, and I don't really like wasting time on short-term relationships. So, you know, it's nothing personal. Luis: Wow. She seems like a really nice gir...
On the whole, stories don't write themselves.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.