Written Quotes · Page 23

History is written by the victors.

— Winston Churchill

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

— John Berger

“I don't like to write. But I love having written. ”

— Michael Kanin

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I like having written better than I like having acted.

— Carrie Fisher

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

— Lloyd Alexander

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to…

— Cardinal Richelieu

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

— Anonymous

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

— Brenda Lee

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

— Cassandra Wilson

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

— Judith Crist

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

— Joe Biden

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

— Gord Downie

The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president…

— Rafael Cruz

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research…

— David Liss

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very…

— Ryan Coogler

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with…

— Beverly Cleary

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says…

— Michael Morpurgo

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

— James A. Garfield

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

— Len Wein

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite…

— Siobhan Fahey

When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass…

— Zach Galifianakis

Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your…

— James Hillman

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets…

— James Elroy Flecker

If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice…

— Christian de Duve

I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want…

— Elena Poniatowska

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that…

— Judd Apatow

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were…

— Bell Hooks

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would…

— Stevie Wonder

I love deliberately badly written books.

— Richard Prince

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

— Bhartrhari

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

— Porter Robinson

I've written a little bit in Germany.

— Paul Beatty

“Many books have been written on Thomas Merton already.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

History is written by the victor

— Anonymous

A dream doesn't become a goal until you write it down.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.”

— Irfa Rahat