Unnoticed Details Quotes

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Ultimately it's the simple things that make a difference.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena.

There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

The minor events of history are valuable, although not always showy and picturesque.