Top 100 Never Noticed Quotes
#1. It's as if loosening that knot I'd never noticed before had slackened my interest along with it. At the same time that I'd lost something, something new had also taken root deep within me.
Haruki Murakami
#2. There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations.
Suzanne Rindell
#3. But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?
Geraldine Jewsbury
#4. That was the Jason most people never noticed. The one who made an effort to spare someone else's feelings. He was being kind to my darling. I cast an affectionate glance at his back.
A.M. Jenkins
#5. You always play it open, don't you?" he asked.
"I've never noticed you doing otherwise."
"I thought I was the only one who could afford to.
Ayn Rand
#6. To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.
Brigid Brophy
#7. A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
Thomas Boswell
#8. If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.
Ron Shock
#9. He had a cute little gap in his teeth that I'd never noticed before.
Elisa Ludwig
#10. The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things ...
Daniel H. Pink
#11. She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.
Virginia Woolf
#12. Love doesn't have to be like a thunderbolt; you can meet someone and fall in lov anytime. Sometimes it's just always been there... thing is... you never noticed...
S.M. Mala
#13. She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.
Ilona Andrews
#14. Happiness is a song I never noticed
I was singing all the time :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Petra Hermans
#15. If I wouldn't have looked under the hood, I'd have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn't exist before I opened the hood. So did I cause the problem by becoming aware of it, or was it already there regardless of my ignorance?
Jarod Kintz
#16. Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.
Robert Jordan
#17. I like everything about you, honey. Everything. Lived in black and white seems like all my life. Never noticed. Not until you colored my world
Kristen Ashley
#18. MERESTON: But you break my heart.
LADY FREDERICK: My dear, men have said that to me ever since I was fifteen, but I've never noticed that in consequence they ate their dinner less heartily.
W. Somerset Maugham
#19. I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.
George Orwell
#20. I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that he was beautiful. I weep for him because whenever he lay on my banks and looked into my waters, I could see my own beauty reflected in his eyes.
Paulo Coelho
#21. At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.
Pete Seeger
#22. Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?
Don Whillans
#23. It's like our whole culture is based on frivolity, and I never noticed before." -Cara
Melissa Landers
#24. How have I never noticed she only required praise to find me acceptable? wondered Sophronia, not quite realizing that this, too, was a mark of her new education. Many was the lady whose belief in another's sound judgment was based solely upon that other judging her favorably.
Gail Carriger
#25. When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#26. I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. Her whole face changes when she smiles - this eyebrow-lifting, perfect-teeth-showing, eye-crinkling smile I've either never seen or never noticed. She becomes pretty so suddenly that it's almost like a magic trick
John Green
#27. When we pay attention, whatever we are doing ... is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.
Rick Fields
#28. Broad-shouldered, with skin of the desert and eyes of silver and ash, he was the kind of boy who turned heads and never noticed. The faint shadow of hair that darkened his jaw served only to accentuate features hewn from stone by the hand of a master sculptor.
Renee Ahdieh
#30. Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself ... things you had never noticed before ... things nobody else cared to.
Steve Maraboli
#31. We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you.
Firoozeh Dumas
#32. Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.
Paul Laseau
#33. I never noticed at the time. But the fun we had making it blasts away the imperfections. Kim, Jane, the cast and crew, and I created something together that didn't exist before. Without permission. Without regrets. Hell, yeah.
Felicia Day
#34. But I had never noticed that anyone profited from needless spite,
Ann Leckie
#35. This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.
Clark Gable
#36. 'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
Mark Hoppus
#37. What I like best is to notice something I never noticed before.
Marty Rubin
#38. 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
#39. But since the new Archchancellor never paid much attention to anything anyone said while he was eating, and Poons never noticed that he wasn't getting any answers, they got along quite well.
Terry Pratchett
#40. If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein
#41. Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.
Arlene Ang
#42. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.
Henepola Gunaratana
#43. When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#44. Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
Alex Berenson
#45. I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.
Jenny Slate
#46. I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
Gisele Bundchen
#47. India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#48. We must find you a new boyfriend, Wavey had kept telling her, but what if a girlfriend was what Fever needed? She felt as if she had opened the door to a room she had never noticed in a house where she'd lived all her life.
Philip Reeve
#49. While talking to you I always get a Little Smile on my face that I never noticed
Pawan Mehra
#50. Soda pop and cotton candy and every face you've never noticed.
Ainslie Hogarth
#51. It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really picked up in awhile, and you look around and say, 'Wow, my place is kind of a mess, but I never noticed it because it's what I've been living in every day.' That's kind of what Supergirl is to the Red Lanterns.
Charles Soule
#52. It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.
Nicholas Sparks
#53. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.
Isaac Asimov
#54. Until now, I never noticed how much fantasy had to do with reality.
James Patterson
#55. I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B.B. King
#56. To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.
Dave Eggers
#57. I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.
Gillian Flynn
#58. Somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with a warmth and sad beauty I'd never noticed before.
Marisha Pessl
#59. Life is very different when you walked through it...How was it he never noticed all this before?
Rachel Joyce
#60. She's had plenty of experience of job loss from the other side in her life, but had never noticed how calculated to cause offence a lot of human-resources-speak actually is.
Alex Marwood
#61. He noticed that Ivan swayed as he walked and that his right shoulder was lower than his left. He had never noticed it before.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.
Ayn Rand
#63. Swatting his arm was like swatting a brick wall; Elle had never noticed the toned biceps hiding under his pressed suits and crisp button-ups. Or maybe she had, but she'd just added it to the list of reasons Grant was a sleazy jerk: gym-obsessed, girl-obsessed, and money-obsessed.
Liz Meldon
#64. 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
#65. A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.
Michael J. Sullivan
#67. The world under your feet is changing & you never noticed, it's on you. If you're changing & the world failed to notice, it's not on you...
Assegid Habtewold
#68. I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?
Murray Leinster
#69. They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.
Paulo Coelho
#70. You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.
Tyga
#71. In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.
Jason Mraz
#72. His lips quirked slightly when he noticed my incredulous expression. "I know I wouldn't. One taste of warm blood is never enough, Miss Wadsworth.
Kerri Maniscalco
#73. I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.
Anthony Liccione
#74. Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.
Eddie Izzard
#75. You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up ... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
Cher
#76. The one-drop rule had never made any sense to him. If one drop of black blood made you black, why didn't one drop of white blood make you white? And hadn't anyone noticed yet that everybody's blood was red?
Tiffany Reisz
#77. Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
David Hockney
#78. Couldn't change the brain I'd been born with, so instead I learned how to narrow the world with makeshift blinders, until all I noticed was what I wanted to notice. That's autism, for those who've never been there themselves.
Jodi Picoult
#79. The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice?
Una McCormack
#80. After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
Earl Campbell
#81. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
Deb Caletti
#82. Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed
Esther M. Friesner
#83. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
Michael J. Fox
#84. I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones.
John Boyne
#85. I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
Will Rogers
#86. Have you ever noticed that folks will say 'Look, he has his mama's eyes' or 'his daddy's nose,' but they never say 'We're so proud! Look! He's hung just like grampa'?"
- Zach McKnight
Suzie Quint
#87. I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.
Kristen Schaal
#88. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
#89. I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.
Heinz Linge
#90. My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#91. I never worried about the genius: genius takes care of the genius in a man. My concern was always for the nobody, the man who is lost in the shuffle, the man who is so common, so ordinary, that his presence is not even noticed. One genius does not inspire another.
Henry Miller
#92. Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.
Larry Holmes
#94. Their eyes locked. Again, heat rose to Livy's cheeks. He needed to stop looking at her that way. She never should have noticed the captivating hue of his sky-blue eyes. When was the last time a man flustered her like this. Maybe never.
Teresa Tysinger
#95. Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?
Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.
Gail Carriger
#96. I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
Annie Dillard
#97. I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.
Bow Wow
#98. I had never really noticed it before, but Sahariel and I touch a lot. Casual touches here and there, and as I hold onto his hand I can't help but notice how intimate the touch is. He
Camilla Beavers
#99. Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.
Anna Quindlen
#100. I'm not saying that's all I have floating around inside my brain, as a writer, there are so many possibilities waiting for a chance to be noticed. You can never say it's over.
SD Neeve
