Top 100 Note Quotes
#1. You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
#2. What type of Manhattan Night proposal is this?
(Note: I am talking about Manhattan Night movie, book)
Deyth Banger
#3. The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#4. I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
Hume Cronyn
#5. My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
Ellsworth Kelly
#6. The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
James Hamilton-Paterson
#7. Examine thus yourself from every side.
Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving.
Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path
Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.
Shantideva
#8. Bach is the supreme genius of music ... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it
Pablo Casals
#9. Whatever reason, an evening nodding and unconscious in my bedroom at Hobie's had begun to seem like a perfectly reasonable response to the holiday lights, the holiday crowds, the incessant Christmas bells with their morbid funeral note, Kitsey's candy-pink notebook from Kate's Paperie with tabs
Donna Tartt
#11. Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
Booker T. Jones
#12. Note to self: never ever use your brain again.
Karen Swart
#13. Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply.
Richard Kadrey
#14. 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
#15. Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
William Shakespeare
#16. A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
Thelonious Monk
#17. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In
Neil Gaiman
#18. One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.
Stephen King
#19. I write a note and tape it to my window
I'M NOT A DETECTIVE.
BE SPECIFIC!
Lisa Schroeder
#20. I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
Lawrence Wright
#21. One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
Alain De Botton
#22. Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.
Robert Patterson
#23. I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
John Hodgman
#24. The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
Don Henley
#25. Every story has an end, I just try to end it on the right note.
Siamack Ghadimi
#26. Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy
that moves me!
Alan Rufus
#27. You should take note that simply because a girl makes your dick hard, that doesn't mean you have to go shove it inside her.
Colleen Hoover
#29. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.
Stephen Gillett
#30. To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather
#31. DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.
Terry Pratchett
#32. Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.
Seth Godin
#33. It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#34. On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.
Lionel Messi
#35. It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome ... was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.
George Q. Cannon
#36. Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.
J.K. Rowling
#37. One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
Piet Mondrian
#38. What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
Henry David Thoreau
#39. Some scents sparkle and then quickly disappear, like the effervescence of ctirus zestor a bright note of mint.
Deborah Lawrenson
#40. This baby let's me take my low E string from an E Note to a D and back in a flash without having to retune. It can cry like a baby and scream like a devil; it's got angel wings and horns both,and it'll kiss you at the same time it fucks you. Not many dudes can top that,right?
C.M. Stunich
#41. I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley
#42. So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.
Frank O'Connor
#43. I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
Mandy Patinkin
#44. The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.
Thomm Quackenbush
#46. It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.
Phil Ehart
#47. I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.
Nick Earls
#48. When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on ... Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?
Alpana Singh
#49. I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.
John Shadegg
#50. A sat note crept into his voice. "But something's missing now from political discourse."
"What?"
"Caring about others," he said.
Ellen Levine
#51. I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
Demetri Martin
#52. The best conversationalists don't just engage on the literal, surface level of conversation. They listen instead to tonality, pay attention to eye contact, note shifts in body language.
Charlie Houpert
#53. Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
Count Basie
#54. A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
Thomas A. Edison
#55. The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.
Deanna Chase
#56. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;
Matthew Henry
#57. Every time, she spelled it "hoo." He said it ruined everything. (NOTE: We did confirm that this was a woman and not an owl.)
Aziz Ansari
#58. I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.
Lewis Black
#59. From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note ... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.
Martin Parr
#60. I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.
Geoff Tate
#61. Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres
and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.
Richard Salter Storrs
#62. And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.
Jonathan P. Lamas
#63. Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.
Steve Albini
#64. Master whose every whim is law. (Note to friends with children: I am referring only
Tim Kreider
#65. Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
Bob Monkhouse
#66. If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
William Hazlitt
#67. ***A Last note from your narrator***
I am haunted by humans.
Markus Zusak
#68. Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.
Solange Nicole
#69. I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
#70. Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate ... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka
#71. P.S. I also note that you included the Stalker's Anthem "Every Breath You Take" I do enjoy our sense of humor, but does Dr. Flynn know?
E.L. James
#72. We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.
Billy Graham
#73. When you wake up the next morning and see a bag filled with stale pieces of bread, a candle, a wooden spoon, and a feather, you may be wondering what you did last night and weather anyone got hurt [Note: This is some strange Jewish custom].
Cantor Matt Axelrod
#74. I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
Richie Havens
#75. We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.
Lester Bowie
#76. I hear Nine make an oohing noise off to the side and make a mental note to destroy him the next chance I get.
Pittacus Lore
#77. also advise you to check Oracle Support note 47358.1 (Init.ora Parameter STAR_TRANSFORMATION_ENABLED Reference Note). It gives you a list of the bugs affecting each specific version.
Christian Antognini
#78. Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
#79. The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.
J.A. Redmerski
#80. I get that you have a huge ego and probably don't want to admit you're a disgusting, shallow bastard, but don't hide behind a doctor's note.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#81. The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent ...
Gregory Galloway
#82. Note to self: buy some nunchucks or something.
Cynthia Hand
#83. If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
Richard Lugar
#84. In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.
Dave Blood
#85. There was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.
Julie Anne Long
#86. Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#87. Hang on," Driggs said as Lex pulled out Bone's note. "She might be right."
Lex gave him a look. "You don't have to sound so shocked about it."
"But it happens so rarely. Like an eclipse.
Gina Damico
#88. I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.
Charles Spurgeon
#89. No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.
P. J. O'Rourke
#90. It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
Frederick The Great
#91. And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to leave one note just hanging up there where it illegally belongs and let it dangle in the wind and turn a dead body into a living beauty.
Keith Richards
#92. I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.
Edan Lepucki
#93. I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
Katherine Jenkins
#94. Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.
Michael R. Burch
#95. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Anne Fadiman
#96. The operating table was empty.
'Where's he gone?' demanded Jane.
'he didn't leave a note,' said Rye
Adam Baker
#97. Care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body - but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it. - Handwritten note from Max to Sophia
Nalini Singh
#98. If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.
C.S. Lewis
#99. Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.
Robyn Schneider
#100. If you want to know whats really going on in the world note carefully what is never mentioned in the newspapers meaning of course that is he meant international money swindles & deals between jewish gold merchants & cabinet ministers
John Thomas Idlet
