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“As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

Knows Joy Pleasure Know How Sadness Sorrow Notes Sweetest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.”

“He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.”

Notes Wander Reckless Tenors

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.”

“Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.”

Years Born Attention Company Hundred Cat Notes Yesterday Thirty Fourteen

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“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.”

Writing Wells Character Lying Artist Can Do Views Creative Talent Notes Limitation Range Reporters Creative Writers Deepest Sympathy

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“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?”

Way Life Stills Path Journey Honor Notes Prepared Being True Uniqueness Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.”

School Written Notes Someday Maybe Someday

Author:Sharon Olds

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

Play Attitude Percent Notes

Author:Miles Davis

“It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.”

Pleasure Notes Australia

Author:Nick Cave

“Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.”

Ifs Knows Looks Lasts Girl House Half Boys Saws Tree Computer Research Notes Neighbor Last Time Handwritten Notes

Author:C.C. Hunter

“[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.”

Said Grace Air Goes On Tests Notes Wide Professors Pencils Jason Leo Valdez Jason Grace Mimicking

Author:Rick Riordan

“I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.”

Looks Running Earth Time Water Loses Sun Clear Fire Air Pure Notes Look Up Passages Her Beauty Quickening Pure Water

Author:John Donne

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

“I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.”

“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.”

Men Happiness Rooms Five Focus Notes Pounds Candle Goodwill Entrances Happy Man Idlers

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon”

Ifs World Feels Believe Would Be Nations Levels Written Military Fronts Flower Involved Conflict Notes Cards Awful Hilarious Sincerely High Level Greetings Feels Just Greeting Card

Author:Dave Barry

“Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."”

“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.”

Ifs Writing Mean Evil Inspiring Crime Musician Notes Adultery Fanaticism

Author:Georges Bizet

“Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.”

“There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.”

Life Sound Instruments Notes Silent Strikes Cupid

Author:Thomas Browne

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“The high note is not the only thing.”

Music Notes Musical Crafts High Notes Musical Life

Author:Placido Domingo

“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”

Sides Silence Music Teacher Gains Notes Significance

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.”

Mean Speak Sound Music Subjects Notes Combination Music Speaks

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

Night Music Musician Jazz Notes Musical Memorable Jazz Music Playing Music Jazz Musician Great Musician Playing Jazz Jazz And Life Jazz And Blues Notes Music Jazz Records

Author:Ornette Coleman

“If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.”

Ifs Inspirational Play Music Musician Self Improvement Jazz Notes Guitar Improvement Hitting Jazz Music Jazz Musician Playing Guitar Guitar Playing Guitar Music

Author:Joe Pass

“There is no such thing as a wrong note.”

Music Jazz Notes Jazz Music Notes Music

Author:Art Tatum

“There are notes between notes, you know.”

Knows Music Jazz Notes

Author:Sarah Vaughan

“Never lose the groove to find a note.”

Loses Music Jazz Notes Groove

Author:Victor Wooten

“It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.”

Ifs May Real Problem Form Nature Animal Deals Trouble Notes Modest Irrelevant Real Problems Identifying Crabs Beetles Fiddlers

Author:Edward Goldsmith

“Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.”

“Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.”

Ifs Persons Country Reason Politics Heard Havens Promise Empty Notes Leaving Chiefs Reason Why Irritating Leaving The Country

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.”

Notes Thank You Thank You Note

Author:Randy Pausch

“Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.”

World Two Work Violence Praying Notes Resorts Two Days Overdue

Author:Mark Twain

“I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.”

Wells Play Character Wanted Film Actors Enjoy Acting Television Shapes Late Notes Size Various Ugly Wide Theatre Variety Enjoyed Cute Theme Variation Film And Television

Author:Ian Mckellen

“Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.”

People Ifs Stills I Can Left Worry Like You Notes

Author:Antonio Davis

“Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.”

Life Inspirational Today Time Tomorrow Mindfulness Notes Yesterday Checks Present Moment Cash Procrastination Live In The Moment Live In The Present Making Time Live In The Now

Author:Kim Lyons

“When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.”

Stories Half Music Jazz Notes Half The Story

Author:Hubert Laws

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

Ifs Differences Keys Diversity Harmony Notes Unity In Diversity

Author:Margaret Fuller

“When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there. When you say a thing that is our of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.”

Ifs Ideas Lasts Change Vision Involved Highest Intention Notes Last Time New Thought Alignment Best Intentions

Author:Marlo Morgan

“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

Men World Littles Long Remember Forget Poor Add Brave Notes Civil War Never Forget 4th Of July American Civil War Brave Man Gettysburg Us Civil War Gettysburg Address

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.”

Men May Persons Important Real Character Action Virtue Battle Achievement Jokes Notes Vices Remarks Distinguished Casual Siege Real Character

Author:Plutarch

“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”

Ifs Children Self Use Light Spirituality Sides Divine Color Serious Musician Connections Scientist Notes Creator Deny Access Block Painter Feminine Chords Hunches Juxtaposition Divine Light

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.”

Play Use Black White Fashion Elements Notes Shoes Chains Bags Toes Pearls Jackets Camellias

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.‎”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”

Highest Notes Buddhist Nonsense Lowest

Author:Alan Watts

“Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Time Justice Attitude Habit Please Adversity Fortune Notes Prosperity Following Teeth Shock Expecting Nails Following Rules

Author:Seneca the Younger

“If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”

Ifs Play Night Sound Music Jazz Notes Damn Tonight Every Night Jazz Music Jazz Musician Playing Jazz

Author:Count Basie

“A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.”