Written Quotes · Page 12

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…

— Bob Dylan

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

— Agnetha Faltskog

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

— Alistair Begg

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and…

— Thomas Merton

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or…

— Grace Coolidge

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that…

— Roxane Gay

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I…

— William Joyce

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,…

— Maynard James Keenan

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script…

— David O. Russell

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars…

— Anonymous

There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in…

— Jodi Picoult

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written…

— Thomas Jefferson

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written…

— Tom Felton

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

— Howard Frank Mosher

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got…

— Johnny Cash

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian…

— George W. Bush

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over…

— Learned Hand