Field Notes Quotes

#1. Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room.

Lori Lamothe

#2. How long does a dream have to last before it's just life?

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

Donna Air

#4. If Wasp were writing field notes on herself, they'd read: plans attempted: 1000000 plans succeeded: 0 never learns. better off destroyed.

Nicole Kornher-Stace

#5. Sometimes it felt like she was still in the middle of a conversation with him, that they'd only paused for a beat; that this was nothing more than the space between musical notes, the timeout on a playing field, the long, slumbering winter before an inevitable spring.

Jennifer E. Smith

#6. What you must do, do cheerfully.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#7. When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.

Sean Carroll

#9. Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung.

Tite Kubo

#10. I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Mark Mason

#11. The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

Richard Engel