Notations Quotes

#1. I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Joseph C Zinker

#3. The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Rachel Cusk

#4. Roarke made some notations on the fax - a

J.D. Robb

#5. I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Tony Hoare

#6. Sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.

Paul Theroux

#7. All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

Ellsworth Kelly

#8. Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Rumi

#9. You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#10. I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Morris Graves

#11. I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

J. Robert Lennon

#12. It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple

Adrienne Rich

#13. One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

John Ortberg

#14. When you succeed, everyone wants to be part of it; but when you fail everyone seems outsider.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

Taylor Hanson

#18. Happy people think about how to help others and not how to get from others.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

Irene Khan

#20. We believe there are very few of the world's problems we could not solve with high explosive or a well-aimed bullet.

Marcus Luttrell

#21. I don't go down the road of condemning.

Joel Osteen

#22. Everyone falls eventually," Piper told me. "You think it'll hurt. But it's falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it's kind of fun.

Kate Karyus Quinn

#23. It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.

Peter P. Mahoney