Notes Quotes · Page 19

I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Tod crossed his arms over his snug white T-shirt, silently giving me the floor. Fortunately, I was prepared. "Sabine ambushed me in…

— Rachel Vincent

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the…

— Manning Marable

Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not…

— George Will

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,…

— Elizabeth Smart

He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease…

— Rick Riordan

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But…

— Cathleen Schine

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

— John Milton

Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it…

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.

— Kenneth Franklin

I have great love for St. Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have a…

— Pope Francis

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them…

— Anonymous

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because…

— Jessica Simpson

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

— Pierre Trudeau

I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write…

— Horace Silver

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in…

— Sharon Olds

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer…

— Richard Russo

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

— Kyle Hill

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like,…

— Anonymous

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

— John Milton

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known…

— Robert Palmer

There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man…

— Hermann Joseph Muller