Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. — Bruce Chatwin
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. — Dale Dauten
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. — Albert Einstein
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. — Edgar Allan Poe
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. — Jonathan Lethem
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing
Short Notebook Quotes
That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. — Nicholas Sparks
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
You are, and always have been, my dream. — Nicholas Sparks
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks
Gaming notebooks aren't that abundant. — Jensen Huang
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. — Nicholas Sparks
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. — Nicholas Sparks
Notebook. No photographer should be without one! — Ansel Adams
Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it. — Nicholas Sparks
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook — Nizar Qabbani
The Notebook Quotes
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. — Nicholas Sparks
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born. — Doris Lessing
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. — J. K. Rowling
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist. — Eugene Delacroix
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. — David Nicholls
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. — Bill Gates
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper. — J. R. Moehringer
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. — Jay-Z
The Golden Notebook Quotes
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. — Doris Lessing
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. — Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. — Doris Lessing
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh. — Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do." — Doris Lessing
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them. — Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country... I was really astounded that some people were shocked. — Doris Lessing
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy. — Doris Lessing
In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves. — Doris Lessing
Notebook Love Quotes
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. — Nicholas Sparks
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. — Nicholas Sparks
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second. — Nicholas Sparks
We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. — Nicholas Sparks
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other . — Nicholas Sparks
You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. — Nicholas Sparks
“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks
Every great love starts with a great story. — Nicholas Sparks
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place. — Sophia Bush
Notebook Memorable Quotes
I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping. — Noah
In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. — Noah
I lost you once, I think I can do it again. — Nicholas Sparks
Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want? — Nicholas Sparks
And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. — Nicholas Sparks
Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over. — Nicholas Sparks
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. — Nicholas Sparks
That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is. — Nicholas Sparks
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. — Nicholas Sparks
You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. — Nicholas Sparks
Golden Notebook Quotes
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. — Doris Lessing
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. — Doris Lessing
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to. — Doris Lessing
None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it. — Doris Lessing
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. — John Taylor Gatto
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. — Cherrie Moraga
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. — Ernest Hemingway
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. — Alice Munro
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system. — Emma Forrest
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. — Colm Toibin
I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. — Helmut Newton
When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday! — Lewis Black
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it. — John Varvatos
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. — Tom Berenger
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets. — Marc Maron
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. — Maira Kalman
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. — Ernest Hemingway
Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home. — Patricia Briggs
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