As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's… — Howard Lawrence Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life. All that I am. All that I will become… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“The cover is alluring. The beginning may be enthralling. But there's no culmination and no happy ending. So I sagely advise you… — S. Ann Cole Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat.… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin… — William P. Perry Copy Share Image