Notes Quotes - Page 5

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

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.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

This bank-note world.

You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note)

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

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