#note

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#age

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#down #i #me #notes #roar

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#difficult #first #front #getting #given

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. ↗

— Anne Boyd

#expedition #notes #romantic #take #you

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#african #african americans #beginning #behind #first

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#got #music #notes #played #realize

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. ↗

— Scott Cook

#bank #bars #certificates #coins #fifty

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#come #different #different things #find #hear