The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. Oscar Wilde
Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness-if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders. Jane Austen
When the pots containing two worms which had remained quite indifferent to the sound of the piano, were placed on this instrument, and the note C in the bass clef was struck, both instantly retreated into their burrows. Charles Darwin
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many. Fernando Pessoa
But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?-Now sinks the note of fear! Ah? wretched mariners!-no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way! Ann Radcliffe
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. Paul Gauguin