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Quotes About Notice

every possible Euclidean and non-Euclidean permutation of lights; ten thousand lights, ten million lights, the ten billion lights of Great Yu, each one a voice calling, "I is what I am! Notice me! Notice me!
~ Unknown
What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?
~ CrimethInc.
How does dirt find its way into old houses like it does? Sometimes I think it's the house itself, old and disintegrating by degrees, breathing out sighs of itself, sighs longing for a little bit of notice.
~ Unknown
Do notice: We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.
~ Joan Didion
It seemed that people could walk through life without causing a ripple, leading ordinary and uneventful lives. It was only after they'd been murdered that people took notice of them.
~ Joanne Fluke
I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.
~ Jodi Picoult
Don't struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt
~ Unknown
If you want people to notice your faults, start giving advice.
~ Unknown
Funeral notice in the paper." "I still don't know who you're talking about," the other ice fisherman groused. "Dressed funny," the guy at the other table recalled.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Ello nodded "I told him. Plus Garrett threw a plastic tomahawk into his room and I think it hit him." "Seems like sufficient notice." Hunter observed. "It was from the box of Thanksgiving decorations" Ello continued. "The tomahawk symbolizes our oppression of Native peoples. If there were any justice, we would all go back where we came from and leave the country to the people who were here first." "Okay" Hunter agreed "We'll leave after dinner." Ello gave him a dark fuming glare as he stood up.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.
~ Gloria Gaither
The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
~ Unknown
Ten cents straight will be charged for all obituary notices to all business men who do not advertise while living. Delinquent subscribers will be charged fifteen cents per line for an obituary notice. Advertisers and cash subscribers will receive as good a send-off as we are capable of writing, without any charge whatsoever. Better send in your subscription, as the hog cholera is abroad in the land. —ALTOONA (KANSAS) TRIBUNE, JANUARY 1928
~ Unknown
To say that I am living on borrowed time would be not merely a cliché but also an understatement. My entire life has been a heavily mortgaged enterprise. But so is yours. Eventual foreclosure awaits all of us. More likely than not, I'll receive my notice before you do, though yours, too, is in the mail. Nevertheless, until the postman comes, be happy. There is no other rational response but happiness. Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time.
~ Dean Koontz
Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether.
~ Dean Koontz
I was also beginning to be annoyed at being alive, after all, and being required to take notice of things again.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Yes, there are stars," I lie and I give them to him--there are no stars--but there must be some behind the clouds and they must be shining inside-out tonight. I love stars, but I hardly ever notice them. I guess when you're blind, you realize how much you forget to see.
~ Unknown
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
~ J. K. Rowling
I have bad news," he announced.
~ Dan Gutman
It's the central executive in your brain that notices that the floor is dirty. It forms an executive attentional set for "mop the floor" and then constructs a worker attentional set for doing the actual mopping.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
~ Lawrence Hargrave
What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.
~ Robert Krulwich
Sometimes you just have to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
~ Unknown
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.
~ Edward Gibbon