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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. -- Barbara Kingsolver
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. -- Horace
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. -- Kate Smith
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. -- Noam Chomsky
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
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed. -- Terence Stamp
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. -- Jacques Ellul
It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd. -- Winona Ryder
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. -- Francis Darwin
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies -- Howard Mumford Jones
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. -- Neil Gaiman
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! -- William Bernbach
Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. -- Smiley Blanton
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. -- Christian Lacroix
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. -- Richard J. Foster
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. -- Billy Graham
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. -- Margaret Atwood
Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed. -- Jolene Blalock
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. -- Martha Graham
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. -- Gautama Buddha
That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. -- L. Frank Baum
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him. -- Laurence Sterne
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. -- Princess Shikishi
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. -- William Bernbach
I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed. -- Tracy Pollan
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. -- Peter S. Beagle
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed. -- Tommy Hilfiger
I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things. -- Ernie Hudson
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed. -- Martha Beck
I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed. -- Liya Kebede
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude. -- Margaret Heffernan
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. -- Elliott Abrams
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. -- Adam Riess
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. -- David K. Shipler
Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs a lot. You learn how to be more creative and whacky and amusing. -- Sloane Crosley
I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then. -- John Abraham
The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble! -- Emily Meade
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. -- Henry Rollins
A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched. -- Angie Stone
Live and die your own way, unnoticed. -- Ding Ling
Life is too short to remain unnoticed -- Salvador Dali
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. -- Thomas Carlyle
I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon. -- Rod Stewart
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. -- Mason Cooley
Don't stand out. Be in a room and remain unnoticed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. -- Paulo Coelho
I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed. -- Shonda Rhimes
Hard work does not go unnoticed,and someday the rewards will follow -- Allan Rufus
Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow. -- Alan Rufus
My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed. -- Cam Newton
Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice. -- Susan Marsh
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. -- Gore Vidal
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them. -- Philip Yancey
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. -- Raymond Williams
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible. -- Edith Pearlman
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink. -- Jane Hirshfield
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. -- Leo Tolstoy
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere. -- Anastasia Griffith
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing from these alone will I be understood. -- C.P. Cavafy
Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed. -- Joyce Meyer
A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed. -- Julien Torma
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching. -- Sachin Tendulkar
She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them. -- Jedediah Berry
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich -- Leo Tolstoy
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure -- Simon Barnes
A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds. -- Franz Grillparzer
Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed. -- Vineet Nayar
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed -- Paulo Coelho
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. -- Jared Bernstein
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. -- E. F. Schumacher
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. -- William Peter Blatty
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed -- Blixa Bargeld
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race -- Robert Frost
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. -- Peter S. Beagle
I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person. -- Lee L Jampolsky
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas. -- Beatrice Warde
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
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world. -- Roland Merullo
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before. -- Paulo Coelho
A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve. -- Brian Jacques
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed. -- Henri Poincare
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it. -- Drake
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. -- Samuel Johnson
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. -- Shannon Hale
The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America. -- Richard Preston
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor. -- Vaclav Havel
An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography) -- Allen Ginsberg
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed. -- William James
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed. -- Carl Rogers
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed. -- Steve McCurry
Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same. -- Constant Lambert
I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed. -- Gren Wells
No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe. -- Suzy Kassem
No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe. -- Suzy Kassem
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. -- Doris Lessing
I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first. -- Kate Spade
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. -- Elihu Root
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity. -- Martha Gellhorn
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode. -- James Gates Percival
When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed. -- Kiki Dee
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present. -- Howard Zinn
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. -- Joan Didion
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion. -- Anthony Loyd
Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work. -- Sean Sullivan
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
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. -- Gautama Buddha
...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy. -- Rachel Joyce
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Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. -- Steven L. Peck
I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing. -- Laurie Simmons
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat. -- Emily Dickinson
Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too. -- Catherine Wilson
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. -- Robert Shea
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
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