#notes

Tunggu malaikat. Jangan dulu dikabulkan apa yang dia minta. Aku ingin mendengar tangisan dan permohonannya lebih lama lagi karena Aku mencintainya. Jika waktunya tiba, Aku akan mengabulkan semua permohonannya, bahkan akan Kulebihkan dari yang dia minta. ↗

— Muhammad Asad

#notes-from-qatar- #inspirational

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#back #between #could #crawl #curl

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

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

— Anne Boyd

#expedition #notes #romantic #take #you

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

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes. ↗

— Evan Davis

#about #ad #amusing #audience #believe