Notes Quotes
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There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person…
— Chanakya
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Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for…
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of…
— Walter J. Phillips
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The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.
— John F. Carlson
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need…
— Robert Genn
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely…
— Charles Fort
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Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
— St. Jerome
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By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate…
— Douglas Hyde
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A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon…
— John James Audubon
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Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.
— Heston Blumenthal
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When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),…
— Saint Basil
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek -…
— Emily Dickinson
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and…
— Saint Basil
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The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person…
— Rajneesh
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People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three…
— Ann Landers
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows…
— Joseph Jaworski
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Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...…
— Woody Allen
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I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people…
— Jon Jones
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