Keeping Notes Quotes

#1. I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

#2. I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.

Jim Jefferies

#3. Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.

Franz Kafka

#4. Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

Roger N. Walsh

#5. Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. After all, that's what memory is for: keeping track of important events, so that if you're ever in a similar situation, your brain has more information to try to survive. In other words, when things are life-threateningly scary, it's a good time to take notes.

David Eagleman

#7. Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?"
"Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149

Monique Duval

#8. Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

Lewis H. Lapham

#9. Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this
everything and everyone
to stay with me.

Paula Huntley

#10. Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord ... I'm guilty.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. I should recommend ... keeping ... a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this.

John Ruskin

#12. Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Edith Hamilton

#13. I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

Alastair Reynolds

#14. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Grace Paley

#15. Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

John Lancaster Spalding

#16. You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

Neil Gaiman

#17. One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Frederick M. Vinson

#19. Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#20. I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. If you're courting me, you have to tell me something about yourself that no one else knows."
He was silent for a moment. "I'd rather jerk-off to thoughts of you than be with anyone else.

Katie Reus

#22. Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late.

Lena Dunham

#23. ..love doesn't just show up and disappear, Not real love.

A.S. King

#24. The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?

Franz Kafka

#25. Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

Joe Bastianich

#26. I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

Constance Zimmer

#27. If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Romeo LeBlanc