A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.


Robert Frost

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He listens well who takes notes.
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There are notes between notes, you know.
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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
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Did you get notes for me?"
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Take time to write handwritten notes from your heart. They will be treasured and loved.
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If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.
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and comparing notes with what is said.
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Those are good notes,
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No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.
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Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
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We're taking notes very seriously.
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What you'll see in Hannover is a blending of Workplace with Notes and Domino.
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Notes due in five years or less look strong.
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I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.
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The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is wher...
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where ...
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where ...
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[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
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We're going to compare notes tomorrow.
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Media Notes, Still Free of Charge.
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They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
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The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
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As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
ROBERT FROST
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
ROBERT FROST
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will tur...
ROBERT FROST
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stoppin...
ROBERT FROST
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I ...
ROBERT FROST