Quotes About Inconspicuous

Like most remarkable things, nobody realized it was remarkable as it happened.

Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I'd never had an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.

When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.

L'ennui est le sentiment apparent, comme une couverture d'autres émotions. Nous appelons cela un sentiment parasite ou un racket, c'est un sentiment que nous éprouvons en lieu et place d'un autre, indicible, inconscient même, le plus souvent. (p. 48)

A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.

they may never become noticeable.

He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world.

Some invasions barely warrant the name.

I dream that I'm beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That's what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that's happiness—no one noticing me. It's a happy dream.

If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan.

One of the best ways to disappear in plain sight was to dress like a wren - brown, brown, and more brown.

He was quiet, and had a shadow's talent for passing unremarked,

I bought a decaffeinated coffee table — you can't even see a difference.

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

You only notice long snappers when they screw up.

Nothing should be noticed.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.