Notes Quotations | Page 5

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

I played the wrong wrong notes.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

***A Last note from your narrator*** I am haunted by humans.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

All the jurors took notes to pay attention and stay awake. We chewed a lot of gum and ate a lot of candy.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes....

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

Send her a quick note while you`re stuck in a long meeting. A lighthearted chat definitely makes the time go faster.

The only notes that matter come in a wad

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

The high note is not the only thing.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

I can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues.

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

I take notes like some people take drugs...

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,

I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

There are notes between notes, you know.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

I choose such notes that love one another.

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri

MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.