Attention Grabber Quotes

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.

One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

You got to have a gimmick in this got-to-have-a-gimmick world.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.

And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

When you advertise fire extinguishers, open with the fire.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.

Damien Sandow, he's a good entertainer. He keeps your attention.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

You gotta have a gimmick.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.