There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks; One burnt her daddy up and then there were six. Six little crazy kids playing… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered,… — Eva Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum -… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I dont just… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image