I'm Not Oblivious Quotes

#1. I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

Agyness Deyn

#2. I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

#3. [Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

John Carroll

#4. Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. "No, no, bad portal," he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. "Stop - evil - eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!

Robyn Schneider

#5. You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Jon Lovitz

#6. [On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

Laura Kightlinger

#7. I'm saying it's totally oblivious to how people feel. Take the ocean, for instance. You can love it, but it doesn't love you back. It will suck you under and steal your breath and beauty can make you cry, or that the sound of the tide coming in at night is the best lullaby you ever heard.

D. Anne Love

#8. Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

Fat Joe

#9. I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

Willard Scott

#10. I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

Irene Tomkinson

#11. Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from.

Ann Patchett

#12. I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on ... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

Kelli White

#13. I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

Billy Collins

#14. I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

Adam McKay

#15. Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

Marco Rubio

#16. Up the hill, sheep bleat, oblivious to human empires rising and falling.

David Mitchell

#17. In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

Eric Drooker

#18. I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

Ty Burrell

#19. I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.

Tina J. Richardson

#20. The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

Angelus Silesius

#21. Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.

Patricia Briggs

#22. I had forgotten I was alone; I sat there, waiting for nothing, oblivious to the time.

Andre Gide

#23. We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

Bill Maher

#24. I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

Margaret Heffernan

#25. People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

David Salle

#26. You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.

Jude Deveraux

#27. The dead are never still, they exist just beyond the corners of our eye, in the barren wasteland beyond our own phantasmagoria, and we, for the most part, remain oblivious to their plight.

David Brian

#28. Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.

Anna Hamilton

#29. It's your choice now," he whispered in my ear, making the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end. "I will bed you. That is not the choice, but whether or not you wish to experience my touch or to be oblivious. It's in my power to grant you either.

Cristina Rayne

#30. 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

#31. When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

Scott Weiland

#32. For the record, and those readers oblivious to metaphor, I would have avoided the subject entirely if my wife did not assure me I was of average size, an opinion as comforting as it is troublesome, because I know how much research she's done first hand. From the chapter, "Small Penis Rule".

Ira Wood

#33. I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

Ben Katchor

#34. The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.

Robert Aumann

#35. As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak. Her

Margaret Mitchell

#36. But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.

Olivia Sudjic

#37. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

#38. When you get lost in love, you become oblivious to oblivion.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Her last boyfriend had been homicidal and her current one was oblivious to the fact that she was a vampire.

Richelle Mead

#40. Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Frederick Lenz

#41. Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

William Shakespeare

#42. When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

#43. Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards.

Sarah Ockler

#44. Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

C.K. Kelly Martin

#45. Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

Estelle

#46. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#47. Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Kamala Harris

#48. I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything ...

Reinhold Messner

#49. Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

Jaggi Vasudev

#50. Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

Bonnie D. Parkin

#51. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

#52. I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty."

"Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,

Raymond E. Feist

#53. Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it.

Bryant McGill

#54. They walk slowly toward each other, their gazes locked, as if they exist in their own world oblivious to the rest of us.

Rachel Morgan

#55. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#56. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

William Faulkner

#57. If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Caitlin Doughty

#58. It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

George Clooney

#59. This was all chemistry ever was: two people's silent selves invisibly aligning while their noisy selves carried on, oblivious.

Alethea Black

#60. I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#61. You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Damien Hirst

#62. They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.

Douglas Adams

#63. I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#64. You're the one who's oblivious. Because there's nothing brotherly about the way you make me feel.

A.G. Howard

#65. The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

Gina McKee

#66. I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.

Tiffany Dufu