Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You… — Jerry Garcia 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
Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly… — Loren Bouchard Copy Share Image
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players… — Al Di Meola Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized.… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . .… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight'… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter.… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Dan Reynolds isn't ashamed to admit he hears 'things' others cannot. It has haunted his every walking moment for years. He doesn't… — David Dunn Copy Share Image
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending,… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I started getting fan notes from people saying, "Oh, keep up the mess-ups," and I'm thinking, "I'm not doing it deliberately. This… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When… — Stacey Snider Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image