When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.”… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image