Quotes About Being Noticed

#1. I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

Eddie Redmayne

#2. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

Rita Dove

#3. You don't have to be the Zig Ziglar of sales to get promoted; in fact, the key to being noticed by most people of authority is just to show up when needed.

Jason Taylor

#4. The secret passages of life are simply magnificent! You can continue walking without being noticed, far away from all the perils!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. They were pleased to eat more Nazis, although nervous about too many disappearances being noticed. More troubling, however, was the flavor. Nazis were nearly indigestible. The taste of hate was hard to swallow.

Sarah Jane Stratford

#6. I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'

Amy Adams

#7. Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Bob Dylan

#8. The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.

Joe Greene

#9. Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

Madhuri Dixit

#11. My own gut feeling is that everyone's psychic ... and it's so ingrained a part of us that we very rarely notice it. The talent may be largely preventative, and that keeps it from being noticed, too.

Stephen King

#12. There are fashions in saying things just as there are fashions in clothes. You wear what other people are wearing not so much because it's attractive but so as not to be conspicuous; so you can go on bind yourself underneath without being noticed too much.

Christopher Morley

#13. I try to walk around without being noticed but I can't help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I'm with Holly and we're both tall and arrogant.

Jo Treggiari

#14. The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet.

Judith Miller

#15. I think a writer is not an ideal husband ... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Roy Blount Jr.

#16. The fear of being noticed after a hundred years disappears as I look into a pair of autumn-colored eyes.

Laura Whitcomb

#17. Elegance doesn't mean being noticed, it means being remembered

Giorgio Armani

#18. With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

Mos Def

#19. The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

Daniel Cudmore

#20. Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

Jack Gilbert

#21. All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Doris Lessing

#22. Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.

Meljean Brook

#23. An honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#24. A tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.

Ned Beauman

#25. Fading into the wallpaper was so much safer than being noticed.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#26. Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up, without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.

Gary Ridgway

#28. In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.

Molly Antopol

#30. I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

Kate Spade

#31. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.

Steve Sabol

#32. Have you noticed that more people seem to be dying than are being born? Bean asked, handing the section to Finney, who took it and nodded solemnly.
"That means there's more for those of us still here." He handed the section back.
"I don't want more," said Bean.
"You will.

Louise Penny

#33. A strong follow through makes the difference between getting noticed and being overlooked.

Damian Birkel

#34. And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along without it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#35. I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

Ben Mendelsohn

#36. Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Arlene Ang

#37. People usually wish that they had the superpower of being invisible but then I realized that the true superpower was to be noticed.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#38. The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

Larry McMurtry

#39. Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Bill Gates

#40. I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.

Hildegard Knef

#41. While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Halle Berry

#42. Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

Joyce Rachelle

#43. Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.

Eric Ries

#44. I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

Rose Leslie

#45. I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Alice Walker

#46. I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

Scott Weiss

#47. It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold ... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

Mary E. Pearson

#48. It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

Jill Douglas

#49. Do you ... feel anything around me?"
"Other than what I felt this morning when I saw how good you looked in those jeans?"
"Daemon." I sighed, trying to disregard the girl in my that screamed, HE NOTICED ME! "I'm being serious.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#50. It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

Edmond Francois Valentin About

#51. I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.

Liam Howlett

#52. There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing / you are not being
heard / noticed only
by others / not heard
for the same reason.

Audre Lorde

#53. Research shows people believe others see their contributions to conversation as being memorable, but they aren't. You think everyone noticed when you stumbled in your speech, but they didn't. Well, unless you drew attention to it by over-apologizing.

David McRaney

#54. When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also ... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

Christian Serratos

#55. I worked the extremely long night shifts for three years on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and I noticed during that time that my mating cycle was being repeatedly triggered. It cleared up when I left for my next job.

Steven Magee

#56. Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.

David Grossman

#57. People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed ... what I bring to TV is myself ... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

Queen Latifah

#58. My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.

Aeriel Miranda

#59. The irony of being ignored by someone is that it means you have been noticed by that person first. Take heart you were seen, and yes they still hate you. However, they will never forget you and will always look over their shoulder to see if your coming their way.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Mark Twain

#61. I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Murray Leinster

#62. I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

Jill Soloway

#63. I noticed that 'Lost' had sort of worn out our welcome; because of 'Lost,' audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster.

Marc Guggenheim

#64. Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

Steven Conrad

#65. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Aimee Bender

#66. 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

#67. The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

Nanci Rathbun

#68. That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Nora Ephron

#69. I noticed that in Tokyo people didn't smell. It was funny. I couldn't smell them, and they didn't say very much: the trains were packed but it was quite silent, like being jammed into a carriage with a thousand shop-window mannequins.

Mo Hayder

#70. 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

#71. OK, she's dead and you feel guilty, and feeling guilt isn't something you enjoy. Too bad. Get used to it. Why the hell should you escape guilt? It's part of being human. Or hadn't you noticed?

P.D. James

#72. I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Gabriel Byrne

#73. Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.

Emma Cline

#74. I slugged his rock of an arm and noticed the slight movement as his shoulder rolled back - it wasn't to avoid being hit, more like he was trying to save my hand. How strong was he?

Ashlan Thomas

#75. Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something.
Tobin and Angie ... their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a
glorious, blush-worthy surprise.

Maureen Johnson

#76. I enjoy my crazy, thank you very much. I noticed a long time ago that those who value normalcy to the point of making someone else feel like shit for being different were assholes. I stopped caring about what people thought of me after that.

Alanea Alder

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

Frances Mayes

#78. One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

Greg Mortenson

#79. I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Salma Hayek

#80. (I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

Sophie Kinsella

#81. Why is being a nerd so bad?
saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan

John Green

#82. Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.

G. Willow Wilson

#83. At the moment, as you've probably noticed, I'm going through a spell of being depressed. I couldn't really tell you why it is, but I believe it's just because I'm a coward, and that's what I keep bumping up against.

Anne Frank

#84. There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Alain De Botton

#85. And no one wants to be noticed because of something like that; it's like being an invasive species that no one pays any attention to until you've strangled and ruined all the beautiful native plants. The

Jasmine Warga

#86. I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Sarah Dessen

#87. I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.

Louis L'Amour

#88. How can he love being ... that? Being what Caine is?"
"Because he's an asshole," she says. "You must have noticed.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#89. He cleared his throat. "You noticed."
"And guys just don't seem to notice me at all!"
"Forgive me for not being too broken up about that

Maisey Yates

#90. I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer, is the watering down process of story. You have to market to the masses and not offend anybody.

Lauren Iungerich

#91. We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Stephen Covey

#92. I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

Brian May

#93. 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.

Brene Brown

#94. I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

Susanna Kaysen

#95. Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

Honore De Balzac