Quotes about notice

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“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“‎People who talk less frequently notice more.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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)”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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