NOTES Quotes - page 3

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. (Richard Russo)
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Composers combine notes, that's all. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison. View quote
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. View quote
John Milton
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. View quote
John Milton
If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it; A chield's aman you takin' notes, And faith he'll prent it. View quote
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. View quote
Robert Burns
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation. View quote
Paul A. Baran
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. View quote
Markus Zusak
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too. View quote
Maureen Johnson
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. "Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. "I wanna get an A on the test. View quote
Rick Riordan
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. View quote
Hilary Mantel
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. View quote
Steffi Graf
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! View quote
Victor Wooten
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. View quote
Dan Ariely
When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find. (Kevin Mitnick)
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. View quote
Benjamin Britten
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. View quote
Ann Brashares
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. View quote
Anthony Daniels
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. View quote
Anne Boyd