Top 100 I Notice Quotes
#1. I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.
Ned Hayes
#2. Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.
Shantideva
#3. I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't.
Elizabeth Scott
#5. I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
#6. I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.
Vladimir Nabokov
#7. Ildiko had been tempted more than a few times to cross her eyes and watch their reaction.
"Don't even think about it, wife. You'll notice half of them are sharpening or cleaning their weapons. All I need is for someone to inadvertently slice themselves open because you startled them.
Grace Draven
#8. Do you know how impossible it is to ignore that woman? I'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to notice.
Maya Banks
#9. Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't
Suzanne Collins
#10. I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
Neil Gaiman
#11. I find often I'm wandering around the park with my kids, and I notice something, and I think, 'Oh, I could come up with a clever Facebook post about that.' It's like, 'Wait a minute - that's not what I should be thinking. I should be present in the moment with my kids.'
Marshall Curry
#12. Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.
Tom Sims
#13. I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.
Will.i.am
#14. I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.
Hilton Als
#15. Quaint and picturesque, though I didn't voice my opinion out loud. Keirran and Annwyl were faeries, and Kenzie was a girl, so it was okay for them to notice such things. as a card-carrying guy club, I wasn't going to comment on the floral arrangements.
Julie Kagawa
#16. My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
Ethan Hawke
#17. You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.
Charlie Munger
#18. I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
Carrie Fisher
#19. He is never far, and every time I glance in his direction, I see huge brown eyes lingering on me, bright with feeling. He is aware of me in a way Alejandro never was, and it gives me a little thrill each time I notice him noticing me.
Rae Carson
#20. When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.
Scott Ritter
#21. I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
Virginia Satir
#22. I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture.
Jorge Ramos
#23. Walking at night is like walking in a dream. It's dark, so I don't notice much of the scenery. I don't wear my watch, so time becomes meaningless.
Leila Sales
#24. Served her right, he thought, riling him up the way she had. "Hurt your foot?"
The amused and satisfied tone didn't escape her notice. "I stepped on a rock while I was running
after this big, stupid culo."
"Which would be me.
Nora Roberts
#25. I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to read. I think if I did get any kind of enhancement I would be very public about it. I don't want people wondering - I want them to know.
Heidi Julavits
#26. Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#27. I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Nikolai Gogol
#28. & if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint
Nicki Minaj
#29. I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
George Strait
#30. I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
R. Kelly
#31. Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
Deborah Moggach
#32. Chryseis was in another wing in the back of the house and would not be aware of our presence. I hadn't taken much notice of the house on my previous visit, but I now realized it was quite large, and built on the Roman model.
Albert A. Bell Jr.
#33. Eating plain toast will detonate her.
"I'll have some honey."
When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#34. My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.
Ray William Johnson
#35. I was going to stop being so cynical but probably nobody would even notice.
Jack Barker
#36. You're shaking."
"I'm not used to people trying to kill me."
"Really? I hardly notice anymore.
Leigh Bardugo
#37. I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. I notice you use 'work' and 'job' interchangeably. oughten to do that. A job's what you force yourself to pay attention to for money. With work, you don't have to force yourself. (Man dining at Claudia Sanders Dinner House)
William Least Heat-Moon
#39. I'm going to ignore him, but he better fucking notice me ignoring him.
Van Krishna
#40. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing ... " "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs ...
Andrew J. Robinson
#41. It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That's how I feel about Meryl Streep. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.
Agyness Deyn
#42. 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.
David Conyers
#43. I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
Dana Delany
#44. If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.
Aravind Adiga
#45. No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.
Jennifer Loren
#46. If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.
Rosemary Mahoney
#47. You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.
Liane Moriarty
#48. I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
Anne Tyler
#49. I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
John D. Voelker
#50. I'd never notice the feelings between Jay and Scott were about as warm and fuzzy as a bald cat.
Wendy Higgins
#51. Ugh. You're being ... you."
"Was that in English?"
"This is all your fault."
"Nope. Definitely not English."
"You're being all hot and sexy, dammit," she said. She banged her head on his chest a few times. "And I can't seem to ... not notice said hotness and sexiness.
Jill Shalvis
#52. The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barry
#53. I used to like you. You liked me back. I knew you liked me. You knew I liked you. Why didn't you try for me? I always tried for you to notice me. You did. Don't be shy. I won't bite.
Melanie Kay Taylor
#54. From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.
Heather Locklear
#55. I have notice most writers wants your honest opinion but not your true honest opinion, therefore become upset. Sorry, I will always give my true honest opinion...
Lin
#56. I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to others. One guy I was with actually yelled, 'Get out of my face!' at a homeless man. Needless to say, there was no second date.
Sarah Wynter
#57. I wonder what would happen if I stopped walking, if I let the crowd fill up the space between us. Would he notice? Would he wade back to find me? Or would he keep going, because forward is his destination and I am not?
Nina LaCour
#58. When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon
#59. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,
I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
Alice Duer Miller
#60. I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
David Levithan
#61. If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused." I notice too, that the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear: "This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.
Sophie Jordan
#63. Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."
Joan Baez
#64. I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.
David Brooks
#65. You drive me out of my mind. You make me so fucking crazy I can't think straight. Did you even notice? Every male out there, along with several of the women, were undressing you with their eyes - and they didn't have far to go. You can't go out in public like this. I mean, Niniane. What. The. Hell.
Thea Harrison
#66. At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.
Kristen Wiig
#67. Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!
Legs McNeil
#68. I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
Marian Keyes
#69. You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.
Dan Chaon
#70. In a loud voice, he told her that he loved her. O, trembling, was terrified to notice that she answered "I love you," and that it was true.
Pauline Reage
#71. How did you notice that?" "Because I notice you.
Nalini Singh
#72. I just think that particular brand of sexy isn't a woman's best weapon, and it's definitely not her only one. If you reduce yourself to that, then that's what people will see. They won't notice anything else about you.
Abigail Strom
#73. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
David Levithan
#74. I got so used to saying good-bye that when he disappeared for real I didn't notice.
Kate Pullinger
#75. They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.
Marlon James
#76. I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
Atticus Ross
#77. Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?
Jonathan L. Howard
#79. Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S.I. Hayakawa
#80. I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.
Tom Ford
#81. During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
Ken Jennings
#82. I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice ...
Jane Austen
#83. I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go
Frank Bettger
#84. I don't always change my clothes just because I'm leaving the house. I wear yoga pants 99 percent of the time, and I pretend that other people don't notice that I'm wearing my pajamas in public.
Shauna Niequist
#85. Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk
#86. i was ment to be by your side and i have waited here along time for you to turn around and notice me
but now your here holding hands with me
The Band Perrry
#87. I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.
Sara Zarr
#88. I don't believe your theory that "readers never notice that sort of thing." I'm sure I should.
C.S. Lewis
#89. When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Julio Iglesias
#90. I think as long as you look like your having a good time, I'm impressed. Because I have a lot of energy, and I like being around it all the time. If you're just sitting in the corner, I probably won't notice you.
Kate Upton
#91. I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Ken Follett
#92. I was nice on the inside, but new acquaintances sometimes never stayed around long enough to notice,
John Elder Robison
#93. I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman.
Joan Rivers
#94. It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
Dave Grohl
#95. Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
Chetan Bhagat
#96. I ain't sayin it ain't all right to study the Bible. You got to study the Bible to know the rules of life. But I notice a lotta folks doin more lookin at the Bible than doin what it says.
Ron Hall
#97. As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.
Roger Ebert
#98. There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
Anna Kournikova
#99. shirt. See?" she said, gesturing at a big brown splotch on her white blouse - a splotch that was now dripping down onto her jeans. "I'm sorry. I didn't even notice.
Jenn Hype
#100. He is always there, and the reasonable side of me always makes sure to push him down as far as I can. I notice it, but I always make sure to ignore it.
Melissa Grijalva
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