Written Quotes · Page 113

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the…

— Peter Sculthorpe

It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in,…

— Rob Reiner

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.…

— Teddy Pendergrass

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but…

— Augusten Burroughs

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

— Eddie Izzard

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was…

— Ishmael Reed

I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that…

— Robin Wasserman

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite…

— Bertrand Russell

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble…

— Samuel Johnson

The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season…

— Ari Graynor

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned…

— Tom Barbash

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we…

— Saint Augustine

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we,…

— Richard Rohr

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

— Frank Bough

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as…

— Jane Smiley

But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten…

— Steven Furtick

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

I sure wish I'd written 'One' by U2.

— Brian Fallon

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me…

— Moshe Safdie

What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a…

— Adam Bellow

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

— Brian Posehn

Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care,…

— Henry Giroux

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense…

— Francois Rabelais

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

— Matthea Harvey

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back…

— Dave Eggers

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

— Trey Parker

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and…

— Andrew Bird

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion…

— Ronald Reagan

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look…

— Zoe Kazan

My progressive ideals are screaming in [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of…

— Angela Alioto

It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven…

— Ronda Rousey

But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone…

— Percy Cerutty

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

— Henrik Ibsen

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And…

— Vera Pavlova

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble…

— Charles Darwin

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

— Harold Brodkey