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On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

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

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.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

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.

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

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.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

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

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.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

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.

Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.

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

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Take notes. Everything is copy.

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

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

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.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

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.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

The high note is not the only thing.

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

The longest suicide note in history.

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

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.