Notes Quotes - Page 19

• Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

  Andrew Davies

  People, Tragedy, Strikes

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• May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

  Lord Byron

  Grateful, Skills, Coats

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

  John Gay

  Heart, Men, Ears

  John Gay, “If The Heart Of A Man”

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• The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Time, Angel

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.76

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Love, God, Flames

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• Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!

  Donald Evans

  Beauty, Moving, Heart

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.

  George Leonard

  Civilization, Knowing, Creative

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• I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Scotch, Cards

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Writing, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't know, being able to work with Meth was pretty damn cool, but even that day, John, the director, gave me one of the best notes I've ever had. I walked into the scene just completely excited. I just couldn't believe I was going to work with Meth.

  Josh Peck

  Believe, Able, Directors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

  Josh Peck

  Actors, Too Much, Action

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Julian Schnabel

  Saxophone, Painting

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Thanksgiving, Moments, Praise

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Player, Guitar, Japan

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

  Charles Stross

  Careers, Average, Long

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

  William Eggleston

  Years, Play, Piano

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like. I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That's enough for me.

  Alan Lightman

  New York, Lunch, Enough

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.

  Karen Armstrong

  Symphony, Silence, Listening

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama.

  Cate Blanchett

  Sex, Drama, Judgement

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

  Cate Blanchett

  Law, Differences, Important

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

  Cate Blanchett

  Order, Actors, Living My Life

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Made

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

  Paul Horn

  Letting Go, Healing, Space

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