#notice

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#beautiful woman #beauty #between #charming #difference

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#i #i think #immediately #language #notice

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it. ↗

— Trygve Lie

#diplomat #having #his #neighbor #notice

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest. ↗

— Kent McCord

#campus #college #everyone #guess #i

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #before #chance #crap #funny

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#any #anything #been #being #cannot

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ↗

— George Orwell

#early #event #ever #had #i

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#begins #big #bloated #doors #feel