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“You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?”

Lines Space Creativity Color All Things Notes Pens Where You Are Brushes Flutes Shimmer

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Notes are expensive... spend them wisely”

Notes Expensive

Author:B. B. King

“Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.”

“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.”

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Author:John Ross Macduff

“The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.”

Ifs Would Be Funny Notes Orchestra

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.”

Long Seems Funny Notes Orchestra

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.”

Joy Fall Rich Birth Notes Ill Birth And Death

Author:Horace

“Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.”

Knows Has Beens Said Notes

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.”

Dies Sound Higher Fundamentals Instruments Add Notes Complexes Dull Length Strings Vibrations Fractions Sustaining

Author:Steve Albini

“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”

Dream Suicide Notes Good Life Neurotic Suicide Note

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”

Care Values Fine Fame Ears Harmony Notes Phrases I Care Quotations

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.”

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Book:An Introduction to English Poetry

Source: An Introduction to English Poetry

“By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.”

Emotion Negative Notes Active Staying Rest Of Your Life Negative Emotions

Author:Jude Bijou

“I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.”

Thinking Men Writing Political Sea Building Notes Drawing Absurd Sand Delivering Utterance Puzzled Pretence Pantheon Political Writing

Book:Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

Source: Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

“Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.”

Kind Stills Different Seems Perfect Class Creatures Singing Bird Notes Rise Above Nightingales Incomparable Rise Above It

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.”

Ifs Wells Doe Whole Divine Devil Harmony Notes Seven Secular Strain Plunder Secular Music

Author:William Booth

“It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?”

Ifs Thinking Way Play Facts Would Be Able Science Courses Enjoy Grew Grew Up Instruments Notes Experts Halt Connoisseur Clarinet

Author:Richard Dawkins

“There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.”

People Knows Book Play Notes Corners Sat Spy Dickens Marlowe

Author:John Mortimer

“What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.”

Ifs Way Writing Soul Eye Running Form Artist Dies Courses Felt Lines Missing Style Models Ears Notes Strikes Cease Precedence

Author:Jean Cocteau

“[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.”

Knows Might Half Century Lucky Optimism Thirds Notes Following Eras Movie Warning Quarters Weekend Entering Cautious Happily Ever After Ever After Half A Century

Author:Nora Ephron

“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”

Needs Should I Can Important Stories Song Musician Notes Take Time Ballads Time Of Need It Takes Time I Need Time

Author:Shirley Horn

“People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes”

People Thinking Writing Notes Editing

Author:Chris Abani

“I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.”

Ifs Knows Persons Government Found My Own Levels Bed Notes Scared Broke Single Person Places To Live

Author:Diane Guerrero

“I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an image of Saint Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the Church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath Saint Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!”

Knows Men Writing Littles Problem Dream Care Can Do Church Sleep Silence Praying Difficulty Tables Notes Statues Great Love

Author:Pope Francis

“The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.”

Earth Grows Steps Tree Journey Feet Thousand Garden Notes Miles Smallest Initials Translations Thousand Miles Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Author:Laozi

“This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.”

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.”

Notes Humorists Note Taking

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

Pleasure Notes Sensibility Thrill Woe Chords Sweetest Vibrate

Book:The poetical works of Robert Burns

Source: The poetical works of Robert Burns

“As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.”

Music Music Is Harmony Notes Poetry Is

Author:John Dryden

“The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.”

Past Music Is Notes

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.”

Space Music Produce Notes Accents Space Between Brass

Author:Claude Debussy

“I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.”

Ifs Writing I Can Notes

Author:Roman Abramovich

“There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”

World Differences Normal Notes Mahler

Author:Gustav Mahler

“I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.”

Soul Body Race Company Eternal Weakness Wings Notes Silent Individuality My Soul Companion Brutal Strict Seals Jailer

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.”

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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.”

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Author:Sophie Germain

“When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.”

Thinking Writing Seems Fall Next Enjoy Share Musician Notes Athlete Painter Experts Zone Composer Deliberate Craftsman

Author:Roger Ebert

“If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!”

Ifs Facts Wish Enjoy Chance Notes Singers Performers Wow Not Afraid Take A Chance High Notes

Author:Evander Holyfield

“I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.”

Ifs Trying Play Pieces Pages Notes Scripts Apology

Author:Hume Cronyn

“I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.”

Thinking Has Beens Use Community Expression Gay Notes Population Vocabulary Gay Marriage Gay Community

Author:Larry Kramer

“I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.”

Book Play Used Pages Letters Notes Corners Copies Correspondence Beckett Handwritten Notes

Author:John Larroquette

“There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.”

Ends Silence Middle Type Notes Silence Is

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”

Book States Imagination Depends Safety Notes Reviews Cultivating Book Review

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.”

People Interesting Notes Billions Assets Poorest

Author:David Korten

“If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!”

Ifs Hard Pay Too Much Notes Clubs Credit Loan Visa Diners American Express

Author:Nipsey Russell

“I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.”

Writing I Can Notes Symphony

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.”

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Author:Chris Martin

“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

Speech Notes Arrangements

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.”

States Creative Comedy Stress Notes Chaos Confusion Desks Organize Stand Up Comedy

Author:Joy Behar