Unnoticed Quotes
174 Unnoticed quotes by 158 unique authors
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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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…
— William James
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree…
— E F Schumacher
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the…
— William Peter Blatty
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We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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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,…
— Laurence Sterne
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into…
— Adolf Galland
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
— Raymond Williams
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to…
— David Malouf
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Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of…
— Richard Florida
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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance…
— Anton Chekhov
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At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something…
— Michael Ende
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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
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The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who…
— Oswald Spengler
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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
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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
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Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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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…
— Martha Gellhorn
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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,…
— Adam Riess
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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
— Joseph Sobran
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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…
— Sean Sullivan
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The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race
— Robert Frost
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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…
— Howard Mumford Jones
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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
Who Wrote These Unnoticed Quotes
158 authors contributed a total of 174 Unnoticed Quotes, led by these top contributors: