Quotes About Notes

returned wedding gifts and penned endless notes of apology to the givers and to all our would-be-turned-would-not-be wedding guests, and if I say that I felt every word of those notes carve themselves into my skin like in that scary Dolores Umbridge detention scene in the fifth Harry Potter, I'm exaggerating, but only a little.

I need one more bass less.

In the office, Michael sat behind our father's desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.

Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

He had some very specific notes he wanted me to address. The notes were about making sure that the character of Danny Castellano was strong and masculine. He didn't want my character to outsmart him and push him around.

Only in the eleventh century was the staff of parallel horizontal lines invented to indicate pitch. At the same time the notes were named ut, re, mi, fa, so, la, from the opening syllables of the successive lines of a familiar hymn: Ut queant laxis / Resonare fibris. . .

Humor is like a singing Tibetan bowl, you manipulate the sound of laughter, subtle notes of awareness.

Life is an impression of the softest and most tender notes and melodies of childhood, to the coarsest, schizoid, steep notes of old age.

Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don't have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.

He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent, naughty notes—perfect for small and secret spaces.

What are we to do with what we have written down? Certainly at first, we will produce mostly garbage. But we have been educated to expect something useful from our activities, and soon lose confidence if nothing useful seems to result. We should therefore reflect on whether and how we arrange our notes so they are available for later access.

Shatov stared at me and said, 'Old boy, you don't understand. A member of the Politburo who can speak for forty minutes without notes — he must be a genius!

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years.

But where of the beginner it's only a move, for the master it becomes the first step in a long sequence. It's like the diference between two apparently identical musical notes that might being a nursery rhyme or a symphony.

The lawyer's assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. "Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I've read that wizards can't be in the same room with things like computers and stuff." I knew where she'd read that. I bit my

Tune, tune," said Porch briskly. He turned to Orson. "And is there a word for today?" Orson was the word person, spilling words out as if they were notes on a staff. "Rebarbative," said Orson promptly. "Causing annoyance or irritation. Mozart's rebarbative music causes me to want to throw up." Porch sighed. Orson preferred Schubert.

There are only three important events to history; by important I mean that these three events eclipse all others. These three events, I believe, will be remembered by men long after we forget everything else in the face of the beauty which is to come. If I liken all of history to an accordion expanded to its fullest extent, then when the master closes that accordion, we would still be able to hear the notes of these three main events playing. They are that important.

I think of human singing, and note that angels are not said to sing. The gift of singing, of making music, and of composing songs may well be one of the greatest marks in man of the creator. Any serious listener of music must recognize the laments and the infinite sorrow expressed in much of our music. Do not our very musical notes ring with the lament of a broken man?

Il m'arrivait souvent de capter des bribes de conversation d'inconnus dans les cafés. Je les notais le plus discrètement que possible. Au moins, ces paroles n'étaient pas perdues pour toujours. Elle remplissent cinq cahiers, avec des dates et des points de suspension.