Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening? — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything… — Tommy James Copy Share Image
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting, Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang. Tonight, if we should… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk… — Tameka Cottle Copy Share Image
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism,… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As… — KAORI Copy Share Image
That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image