Written Quotes · Page 129

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written…

— James Fenton

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly…

— John Cassian

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first…

— Beck

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated…

— Camille Paglia

I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by…

— Carl Palmer

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love…

— Tim Gunn

I like having written better than I like having acted.

— Carrie Fisher

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things…

— Heinrich Heine

So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly…

— Edward Hirsch

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone…

— Mercedes Ruehl

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then…

— William H. Macy

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

— Gerard Way

I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed,…

— Debbie Reynolds

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

— Grant Morrison

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,…

— Len Wein

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and…

— Karan Bajaj

I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie. It wasn’t really written how he…

— Seth Rogen

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you…

— Felicity Kendal

Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

As a reader, I have always enjoyed 'ranty' books, but they are all written by men.

— Claire Messud

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes…

— Len Wein

The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind…

— John Roderick

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not…

— Richard Hofstadter

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.

— John Caples

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is…

— Stephen Covey

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend…

— Steven Pinker

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on…

— August Bier

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas…

— Henry Rollins

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought…

— Anthony Trollope

It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins…

— Kristin Armstrong

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

— LZ Granderson

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

— Gail Carson Levine

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students…

— David Rubenstein

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

— Michael Wolff

Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something…

— Amrom Harry Katz

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances…

— H. G. Wells