(450 quotes found)
“The high note is not the only thing.”
Placido Domingo
“It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game”
Ken Follet
“There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”
William Bliss Carman
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”
Johannes Brahms
“If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.”
William Hazlitt
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”
Hal Borland
“A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.”
Charles Munch
“brought his notes and his requests, and he thanked the members of the committee.”
Issam Ghazzawi
“No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri”
William Wordsworth
