Note Quotes
1026 quotes by 864 authors
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A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.…
— Knut Hamsun
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,…
— Don DeLillo
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Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
— Walker Percy
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There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or…
— Clive Barker
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Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is…
— Max Barry
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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if…
— Douglas Adams
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Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
— Italo Calvino
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My…
— Haruki Murakami
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No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.
— Sloane Crosley
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
— Jeanette Winterson
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God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the…
— Rumi
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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)
— Franz Kafka
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I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong -…
— Russell Brand
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You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note)
— Tsugumi Ohba
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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs.…
— Agatha Christie
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And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of…
— Anne Rice
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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