Notes Quotes
1528 quotes by 1208 authors
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Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of…
— Jon McGregor
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All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future…
— Megan McCafferty
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In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous…
— Rachel Vincent
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To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
— Ann Brashares
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You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or…
— Daniel Handler
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To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would…
— Machado de Assis
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Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
— David Sheff
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A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not.…
— Markus Zusak
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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a…
— Edward Lear
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me,…
— Sue Grafton
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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
— Ian Mcewan
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Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All…
— Wade Davis
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Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into…
— Kim Edwards
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Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the…
— Patrick O'Brian
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She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
— Henry Miller
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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...
— Virginia Woolf
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