I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that… — James Ingram Copy Share Image
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest." — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken… — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. — Howard Berman Copy Share Image
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
You have to be very cautious that you're hitting the right beats and making sure it's funny, but at the same time… — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the… — Garth Nix 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
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I listen to [customers] and we make adjustments because we pretty much average a collection every six weeks. We're constantly taking everything… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices… — Art Farmer Copy Share Image
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be. — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. — George Murray Copy Share Image
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. — Horace Copy Share Image
Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be… — Serge Lutens Copy Share Image
Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. — Dimitris Mitropoulos Copy Share Image
Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image