Notes Quotes - page 20

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly I could seize them with my hands out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos. View quote
Joy Behar
I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, Why Why did I cause so much pain Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, No, that's not right. Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen. View quote
Corey Taylor
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. View quote
John Irving
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. View quote
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. View quote
Harlan Ellison
On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart: There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death. View quote
Kabir
My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. He did not, in other words, leave a lot of breaks in his testimony to allow for discussion. For the moment, that was fine, since it made it easier for Richard to drink. View quote
Neal Stephenson
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either. View quote
Mortimer Adler
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better. View quote
Patrick Stump
I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist. View quote
Johnny Marr
Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Yet yield not to despair! be born again, And thou shalt live a life of joy and peace, Shall die a death of triumph, and thy strain Be changed to notes of rapture ne'er to cease. View quote
Francis Scott Key
I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrows fall will not be unmindful of such service. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. View quote
W. C. Handy
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is. View quote
Ursula Goodenough
That heavenly music! what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And, see, soft unfolding those portals of gold, The King all arrayed in his beauty behold! (William Augustus Muhlenberg)
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. View quote
Sun Tzu
[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools. View quote
John Muir
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. View quote
Dave Matthews