#notes

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#arms #because #cat #footnotes #free

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bands #big #big companies #built #companies

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#emotion #holy #holy spirit #i #just

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#ages #albums #boxes #first #full

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#affect #allowed #cut #cuts #dailies

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#diary #i #kept #never #notes

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#back #constantly #control #creative #creative control

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. ↗

— Richard Russo

#back #begin #certainly #close #end

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#class #expected #here #knowledge #me

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#doodle #down #florist #gave #great