Notes Quotes

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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani
I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I donâ€™t know who that… — Diane Guerrero
I have great love for St. Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have a statue of St.… — Pope Francis
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. — P.J. O'Rourke
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. — John Dryden
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes. — Henry Van Dyke
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. — Walter Savage Landor
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. — Helen Fielding
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had… — Henry James
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. — Roman Abramovich
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note. — Gustav Mahler
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of… — Eugene Delacroix
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed… — Kurt Masur
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or… — Meghan O'Rourke
A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. — Michael Pena
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and… — Carroll Quigley

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