Notes Quotes
1528 quotes by 1208 authors
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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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My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If…
— Grace Paley
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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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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different…
— Albert Einstein
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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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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able…
— H P Lovecraft
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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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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Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and…
— Tom Robbins
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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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In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this…
— Jean Cocteau
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Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,…
— Derek Walcott
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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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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
— John Lennon
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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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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