Quotes of: Notes Keyword

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

Nate the Great

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.

Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Trust me." The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.

Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

Daniel Barenboim

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

Brian Setzer

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Andre Leon Talley

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

Yo-Yo Ma

Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The contrary pull ... " No. If this notion were real, he needn't make a note. A notion on which a note had to be made would be stillborn anyway, his not...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one...

War and Peace

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm.” “If you’re recording notes for an official record, I’d like the word ‘very’ stricken and replaced with ‘exceptionally.

The Distance Between Us

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...

What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]