Written Quotes · Page 210

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

— Billy Campbell

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by…

— Lord Byron

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

— Davey Havok

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a…

— George Santayana

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

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere…

— William Butler Yeats

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

— Vanessa Paradis

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

— Frank Zappa

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more…

— Norman MacCaig

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a…

— Lauren F. Winner

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

— Marianne Williamson

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually…

— Bruce Hoffman

I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's…

— Zachary Quinto

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and…

— Anacharsis

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous…

— John Bolton

To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written…

— Jason Mraz

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and…

— John Galsworthy

Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.

— Peter Handke

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he…

— Marian McPartland

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot…

— Suzy Bogguss

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted…

— Pete Townshend

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

— Leslie Ludy