Written Quotes · Page 105

I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up.…

— Marisa Tomei

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the…

— Dave Gahan

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in…

— John Singer Sargent

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

— Colin Wilson

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It…

— Porochista Khakpour

Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to…

— Rex Murphy

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

— Neil Farber

I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen…

— Stu Weber

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

— Stephen Sondheim

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out…

— Paul Samuelson

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love…

— Frank Zappa

Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery,…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum…

— James Nicoll

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always…

— Jenny Hval

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been…

— Bliss Perry

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten…

— Charles Morgan

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had…

— Edward St Aubyn

“Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

— Margaret Thatcher

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for…

— Ann Rule

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work…

— Edward Hirsch

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get…

— Robert Reisner

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis…

— James Meade

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

— Tea Obreht

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint…

— J. Michael Straczynski

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,…

— Charles de Lint

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and…

— Gabriel Mann

I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in…

— Donald Ray Pollock

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know…

— Akiva Schaffer

There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's…

— Joe Swanberg

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

— Anonymous

I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to…

— Chris Stokes

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will…

— Julia Cameron

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

— Dwight L. Moody

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

— Maurice Sendak