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Quotes About Unnoticed

Racist behavior in our society is largely static, unnoticed, unremarked, and unconsciously accommodated by Americans of all colors.
~ Randall Robinson
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
The Forgotten Works just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. It's a big place, much bigger than we are.
~ Richard Brautigan
But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed.
~ Richard Ford
life's most important moments are often barely noticed by others, if noticed at all.
~ Richard Ford
We weren't the miscreants he was looking for. Something like that.
~ Karen Traviss
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
~ Christopher Paolini
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
~ Dave Eggers
If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
~ William Carlos Williams
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
~ Mark Twain
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.
~ Doris Lessing
There was spirit in all things, Cork believed, knowledge in every molecule of creation. Nothing ever went truly unnoticed, from the fall of a single leaf to the death of a child.
~ William Kent Krueger
Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.
~ David Ebershoff
We are dealing, again, with powerful modern myths. Such myths don't merely inform what people say: to an even greater extent, they ensure certain things go unnoticed.
~ David Graeber
The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
~ Roger Angell
In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.
~ Kresley Cole, Lothaire
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
~ Thomas Carlyle
She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.
~ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.
~ Jane Smiley
No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows.
~ Jason Fried
Quienes actúan envueltos en niebla y de espaldas al resto, y no reclaman ni necesitan reconocimiento, esos son los que turban más el universo.
~ Javier Marías
Es lo malo que tiene cuanto nos sucede y no es registrado, o aún peor, ni siquiera sabido ni visto ni oído, porque luego no hay forma de recuperarlo.
~ Javier Marías