"If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)"
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"For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion."
"Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type."
"Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note."
"I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note."
"And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost."
"Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible."
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent."
"I take notes like some people take drugs."
"Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes."
"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."
"I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg."
"I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note."
"Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note."
"There's never a false note in a Berg novel."
"There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting."
"There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies."
"I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord."
"I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement."