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Quotes About Notebook

Coleridge once jotted in a notebook, 'The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman.' What is so beguiling about a specialist predator is the idea of an intimacy with the Beast! For if, originally, there was one particular Beast, would we not want to fascinate him as he fascinated us? Would we not want to charm him, as the angels charmed the lions in Daniel's cell?
~ Bruce Chatwin
To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe
~ Bruce Chatwin
One day, I can come up with 50 content ideas, and I'm like, 'Boom, I want to do this idea, this idea, this idea.' I have a YouTube notebook, and I write them all down. Then other days, I'm like, 'I have no clue what I want to do today.' I rarely have days like that.
~ JoJo Siwa
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
~ Michael Morpurgo
NOWHERE TO RUN. 1 Three hours after he'd broken camp, repacked, and pushed his horses higher into the mountain range, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett paused on the lip of a wide hollow basin and dug in his saddlebag for his notebook.
~ C.J. Box
Memory is fragile and capricious; each of us remembers and forgets according to what is convenient. The past is a notebook with many leaves on which we jot down our lives with ink that changes according to our state of mind.
~ Isabel Allende
A caution to aspiring writers: not everything you write is worth keeping for the benefit of future generations.) When she gave me that notebook, my mother somehow intuited that I would have to dig up my Chilean roots, and that lacking a land into which to sink them I would have to do that on paper.
~ Isabel Allende
Clara los escribió para que me sirvieran ahora para rescatar las cosas del pasado y sobrevivir a mi propio espanto. El primero es un cuaderno escolar de veinte hojas, escrito con una delicada caligrafía infantil. Comienza así: <>
~ Isabel Allende
I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
~ George A. Romero
Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.
~ Zenobius
In his scientific notebook, Newton wrote, "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas." That is Latin for, "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
~ J. R. Moehringer
dear me i think i can run miles after miles through my mind by imaginary flyover, gather all together to write down on my notebook.
~ litymunshi
once asked Einstein if he carried a notebook to write down ideas. "I never have ideas" was the reply
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ruthie handed me a leather-bound notebook and said she wanted me to fill it with everything I could remember.
~ Chris Fabry
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
~ Patrick deWitt
She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's obvious you're just a bad loser," said Chloe. "I want my notebook!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
In a notebook she kept in the drawer of her nightstand, she'd compiled a list of more than a hundred places she still wanted to visit . . . noting places that sparked her imagination.
~ Nicholas Sparks
She recognizes the cramped handwriting, the internecine, slashing script. She has studied it under the gaze of the Institute Librarian, in locked rooms -- she even, in the early, giddy days of her conversion, practiced Fulton's handwriting for hours. Knows the ink. . . . Here it is now, on the familiar notebook paper Fulton preferred. She tracked down the manufacturer once; they have a plant across the river where they still turn out the Fontaine line.
~ Colson Whitehead
It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue--the penalty of living in an old civilisation with a notebook.
~ Virginia Woolf
In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
~ Celia Fremlin
This was the weird part with me and Miller. We both hated each other, but even more than that, he wanted my money and I wanted my notebook back. Neither of us had said anything about it to Stricker, even when we both got suspended. It was like middle school Mafia or something.
~ James Patterson
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
~ Will Self