A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German - Philosopher
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Marlene Dietrich

It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

Annie Dillard

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

Cynthia Lewis

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

Warren Buffett

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

A professional notices any small change to their racket, whether it's something a bit different to the grip, the strings or the frame.

Tim Henman

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

Candis Cayne

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

Charlie Adam

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.