Written Quotes · Page 211

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

— Tom Lehrer

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

— Rod Serling

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that…

— Ted Nelson

I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by…

— Guy Maddin

I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was…

— Joan Juliet Buck

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in…

— William Beckett

I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.

— Richard Dawkins

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had…

— Mark Shields

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

— Ronald Fisher

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy…

— E. C. Bentley

When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

— Richard Stallman

As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or…

— Sandra Steingraber

A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category;…

— Clayton Christensen

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did…

— Alicia Keys

I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path…

— Maya Tiwari

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

— Mike Mills

I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you…

— Anthony Hopkins

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing.…

— Tom Odell

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...…

— Eugene Delacroix

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so…

— Margaret Mitchell

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the…

— Brian Helgeland