A Quote by Anatole Broyard

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Anatole Broyard

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Anymore Notice Only Things

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Anatole Broyard
American - Critic
July 16, 1920 - October 11, 1990

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

David Byrne

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

Douglas Adams

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Jon Meacham

It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.

Ronda Rousey

The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

Arianna Huffington

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

Heather O'Neill

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

Ellen DeGeneres

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Cecelia Ahern

You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said. "How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes." "Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore.

Paolo Giordano

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

Terry Pratchett

Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

Ellen Hopkins

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

Gore Vidal

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Gregory Maguire

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.