Note Quotes

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. (Ovid)
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. View quote
Georges Bizet
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way? View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. View quote
Gore Vidal
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. View quote
Ornette Coleman
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. (Charles Reade)
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. View quote
Don DeLillo
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. View quote
Virginia Woolf
It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. View quote
Carl Sagan
If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. View quote
Vitruvius
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
We take no note of time but from its loss. View quote
Edward Young
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. View quote
Bobby Darin
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. View quote
Branford Marsalis
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. (Leo Kottke)
I did play every little note on the guitar on that record. View quote
Lita Ford
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. View quote
Vic Snyder
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. View quote
Warren Beatty
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. View quote
William Henry Ashley
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