I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
[about the house] Otho: There's absolutely no organic flowthrough. Delia: I noticed that too; it's like a giant... ant farm.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
