Quotes about notice
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“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”

Ira Glass (1959) American radio personality

“If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

School, Way, Past

“I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.”

John Swartzwelder book The Time Machine Did It

Source: The Time Machine Did It

Time, Cry

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

World, Star

“Incoming!" yelled Poseidon.
They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst.
"This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think it's a rock."
He was observant that way.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Way, Thinking, Baby

“We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Time

“Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?”
“You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Time

“A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Love, Girl

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Life, Reading

“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

People, Thinking

“No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. So that’s why you need to be a little bit brave.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

Women, Hate, People, Feeling

“Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

“Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

God

“Denial, they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.”

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality

Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

Lying, Animals

“They seem to have noticed her for the first time”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Time

“You many have noticed I have a temper… but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

World

“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Prologue (p. 5)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Context: “Heed the lesson there, son.”
“What lesson?”
“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.”
“I want to be a soldier. A hero.”
“You’ll grow out of it.”

Life, God, World, Boy

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Truth, Feeling

“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Question

“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Sun

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

"A Few Pages of Notes," http://books.google.com/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22An+idealist+is+one+who+on+noticing+that+a+rose+smells+better+than+a+cabbage+concludes+that+it+is+also+more+nourishing%22&pg=PA435#v=onepage The Smart Set (January 1915); later published in A Little Book in C Major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22An+idealist+is+one+who+on+noticing+that+a+rose+smells+better+than+a+cabbage+concludes+that+it+is+also+more+nourishing%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage (1916) <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Source: A Book of Burlesques

Funny

“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Happiness

“What? You don't think he's cute?"
"I didn't really notice."
"How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Guy, Thinking

“I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Color

“I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.”

Jeff Lindsay (1952) American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich

Source: Dexter By Design

Idea

“and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”

Timothy Zahn Heir to the Empire

Source: Heir to the Empire

Star

“We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully.
“Noticed!” I yelled back.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“He likes to be noticed. He’s not exactly low-key.” “I get it,” I said. “Loki. Low-key.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Fear, Feeling, Sense

“It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Color

“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Happiness

“These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

People, Justice, Effort

“He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: A Kiss at Midnight

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Life, Idea, Decision, Change

“Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.
Then you grow up.”

John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

Age, Boy, Thinking, Personality

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Moms, Dance, Flying

“Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
… I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

“I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But… you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Madness

“Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.”

William Gibson book Idoru

Source: Idoru

People

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: Big things are often just little things that people notice.
Source: I Am the Messenger

“We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

Business

“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012) American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

People, Home

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Wise

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Life, Imagination

“Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Life, Thinking

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

Sarah Dunant book The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

Life, God, People, Time

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Love

“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“‎People who talk less frequently notice more.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

People

“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

Perfection

“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Madness

“Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Heart

“Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

“I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Girl

“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Life

“I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Love, Way, Feeling

“Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Isabelle snorted, "All the boysgay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."
"You noticed," said Simon.
"I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.
"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Thinking, Parent

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Books, Time, Reading

“I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Stupidity, Past

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Light

“How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Death

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

World, Intelligence, Thinking, Falseness

“Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Killer

Singing

“I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.”

Sara Pennypacker (1951) American children's writer (pseudonym)

Source: The Talented Clementine

Teachers

“An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Carr, Act I
Source: Travesties (1974)

Universe, Indifference

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Way, Heart

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Love, Heart

“Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.”

Aleister Crowley book Magick Without Tears

Source: Magick Without Tears

Hate

“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

World

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

"What is Civilization?" Ladies' Home Journal, LXIII (January, 1946).

Change

“I’d done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn’t take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.”

Oliver Jeffers (1977) British writer and illustrator

Source: The Heart and the Bottle

Truth, World, Star, Sea

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Thinking, Change

“My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“Unfortunately it’s also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen—it’s invisible and you don’t notice its presence until it’s gone, and then you’re sorry.”

Charles Stross book The Fuller Memorandum

Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

God, Smile

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

People, World, Change, Time

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Bayou Moon

Lying

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

Pain, Beauty

“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore…”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

People

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Youth, Dreams, Feeling, Star

“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Thinking, Time

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Heart, Gratitude

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Beauty, Time

“People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

People, Dead

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Learning

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me… And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Imagination

“… I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Life, Imagination

“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Girl

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