Quotes of Note - somelinesforyou

“ You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her. ”

- Ada Leverson

“ In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. ”

- Louis Pasteur

“ But how shall I get ideas? "Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind — Act! ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ It is the theory that decides what we can observe. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost — but how you played the Game. ”

- Grantland Rice

“ To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ”

- Knut Hamsun

“ Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ There's nobody "out there." It's all in here. ”

- Mal Pancoast

“ Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. ”

- William James

“ A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ If others have sinned you need not mention it. ”

- Unknown

“ A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. ”

- Alexis Carrel

“ I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that. ”

- Busta Rhymes

“ I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record. ”

- Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

“ This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. — Western Union internal memo, 1876. ”

- Unknown

“ God save the mark! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ”

- Rosa Luxemburg

“ Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ”

- Dick Cavett

“ The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. ”

- Ovid

“ If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. ”

- Thomas Robert Dewar

“ He that writes to himself, writes to an eternal public. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ Who cares about great marks left hind? We have one life… Just one. it life. We have nothing else. ”

- Ugo Betti
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