Attending

Famous quotes containing the word attending:

    The intent escalator lifts a serenade
    Stilly
    Of shoes, umbrellas, each eye attending its shoe, then
    Bolting outright somewhere above where streets
    Burst suddenly in rain. . . .
    Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    O, this life
    Is nobler than attending for a check;
    Richer than doing nothing for a bauble;
    Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I have seen many people, who, while you are speaking to them, instead of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)