Notes Quotes
1528 quotes by 1208 authors
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Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
— Virginia Woolf
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Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not…
— Lauren Oliver
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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and…
— Neil Gaiman
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She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book,…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need…
— George Carlin
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to…
— Pat Conroy
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It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't…
— Sylvia Brownrigg
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Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.
— Janette Rallison
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Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised.…
— Gail Carson Levine
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I try all night to play a pretty note.
— Jimi Hendrix
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Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.
— John Irving
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Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when…
— Maurice Sendak
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Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?
— Nora Roberts
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Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been…
— Cassandra Clare
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Don’t mind me,†I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.†“No, you diddn’t,†Abby said, appearing on the…
— Ally Carter
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
— Oscar Wilde
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He seemed only ... annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot. "Yeah, well," he said, "the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically…
— Cassandra Clare
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I picked up the phone to call the police, but then I considered how it would sound when I told them that I was calling…
— Jenny Lawson
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Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.
— Andrew Clements
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I get no sense from his note at all,†said Will, bounding to his feet, “except that he can quote Tennyson’s lesser poetry. Sophie, how…
— Cassandra Clare
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